On 2013-05-29, at 18:58 , Justin Dolske <dol...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On 5/29/13 3:09 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: >> Typically when you use the terminal to open an application on Mac, the >> application is opened in the background. > > Mmm, indeed. Someone told me long ago this this was a platform convention, > but it sure is annoying. Seems like a nice refinement to me. > > I'd assume that the most common use-case for launching the browser is to, > well, use the browser. If people don't want -foreground as a default, I'd > like to understand why. (Loading a test page and focusing on console output > is fair, and the -background proposed in the bug would help.)
I'm assuming the convention is so you don't break flow when interacting with the Terminal. Stealing focus away from that means you'll need to refocus the Terminal and that could be annoying. That said, running "open ." in an OS X Terminal launches an instance of Finder and focuses it, so I think we'd be OK to do the same. ~ rob _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
