Public bug reported:
I've actually just added this exact progress on #54127 but I am so
bloody angry with this crappy behaviour that I'm starting another bug...
Ubuntu now has a very serious usability issue as there are far too many
applications that have started stealing focus.
This is something that should be absolutely forbidden and it should be a
condition of getting an application into the Ubuntu repositories that it
does steal focus. In fact this should be enforced in the GUI toolkits
and it should not be possible for a developer to make an app steal focus
without jumping through hoops.
When I am using a program I expect to use that program uninterrupted
until *I* have decided to do something else.
For instance: I have just installed the "GNU ConvertAudioFile" script so
I can convert 200 small WAV soundbytes I have created into mp3 format.
Not only does this script popup a progress dialogue (with a single
"Cancel" button ) and steal focus it will also pop the bloody thing up
on whichever workspace I switch to. There is no escaping being
interrupted.
Needless to say this meant that a good percentage of conversion
operations were inadvertently cancelled whilst I was trying to type a
previous bug report (the spacebar being accepted as a click on the
cancel button) In fact I eventually had to kill X with
"Ctrl+Alt+Backspace" to get back to a sane desktop (I couldn't even use
a terminal as the focus kept getting stolen) and I had to retype this
report in from scratch.
Sorry but it totally UNACCEPTABLE for this bloody awful UI design to
continue. This problem has been getting steadily worse for a while now
as all sorts of programs (including such things as Update Manager) have
started doing it too.
Please fix this behaviour as a matter of utmost priority as it really is
totally ruining the Ubuntu desktop experience.
If I wanted this crappy behaviour I'd be sticking to Windows.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Applications must not steal focus EVER.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197112
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