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Hi Lionel,

welcome on this list :-) Unfortunately, I won't be that helpful today,
since I have some urgent private matters to deal with. But maybe others
can join (CCed Cor, since he was once involved in the discussion).

All I can do today is to refer to this old discussion thread, here is my
first reply in this thread:
http://openoffice.org/projects/ux/lists/discuss/archive/2008-05/message/1

An interesting reply was given by Clement some months later:
http://openoffice.org/projects/ux/lists/discuss/archive/2008-08/message/5

Could you please have a look at the thread whether it contains helpful
information?

Am Sonntag, den 13.11.2011, 17:37 +0100 schrieb Lionel Elie Mamane:
I've started to dig into LO's behaviour with regards to stealing
keyboard focus and raising its windows to top, originally as part of
fdo#35091. That bug was introduced by the fix to i#99971; from that
issue's comment log, the fix was controversial at the time, because it
would reintroduce several older issues, such as i#19976, i#49426,
i#62756.

After this reading, my conclusion is that the expected behaviour with
respect to "steal focus" is platform-dependent:

 - On X11, giving focus to new windows OR NOT is the window manager's
   decision. In general, the application should *not* raise its
   windows to top.

 - On Microsoft Windows, apparently it is *required* to raise your
   windows yourself.

 - On MacOS X, I don't know. Please advise.

Mmh, I did not find anything related here:
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/Windows/Windows.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000961-TPXREF10

I don't own a Mac, so I cannot check. The only thing I've noticed some
years ago was, that OOo (via X11) had totally different window handling
in comparison to the native applications.

So, anybody owning a Mac who could elaborate on the behavior? Thanks!

I have already (in master) made the gist of the fix to i#99971 be
active only on Microsoft Windows.

I intend to hunt down every place where LibreOffice raises its window
to the top, and inactivate it on X11, and leave it active on
Windows. Please tell me what to do on MacOS X.

Exceptions:

 - Raise window to top on all platforms when the window gets recycled
   for a document that gets opened, instead of a new window being
   created.

   For example, if one creates a new text document (which may or may
   not happen by default on startup, depending on command-line
   options), it is called "Untitled N". If that document is not
   modified in any way, and another text document gets opened, it gets
   opened in that window instead of a new window being created.

 - Maybe others as I discover them.

Sorry for skipping the rest of your mail ... but maybe it already helps
(a bit).

Cheers,
Christoph


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