Oh yes, please, a thousand times yes!
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>wrote: > Typically when you use the terminal to open an application on Mac, the > application is opened in the background. This means that for example when > you use mach run or mach debug, you need to either use the mouse or a > painful sequence of keyboard shortcuts in order to get to the Firefox > window that is just opened. > > As a keyboard user, I find this extremely painful in my day to day work, > and recently I'm feeling the burden even more given how easy it is these > days to run Firefox through mach. > > We currently support a Mac only command line flag called -foreground which > makes Firefox's window open in the foreground by default when run from the > Terminal. I filed bug 863754 to ask for mach pass -foreground by default, > but Steven brought up the excellent point that this behavior may actually > be desired by other people. So I'd like to ask, if you care about this, > which way would _you_ have as the default? > > FWIW, I don't believe this behavior makes much difference to our users, > since they don't typically run Firefox from the command line, so I consider > this mostly a choice which should be influenced by our developers. Also, > note that there are some Mac applications which do already open in the > foreground by default. > > Cheers, > -- > Ehsan > <http://ehsanakhgari.org/> > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
