Re: Stealing focus!

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Pluta wrote:
> Three different issues, all incredibly important.  First is stealing
>  focus; I hate that as much as you do, although it's important 
> sometimes.  What is needed is a couple of trays for "important" 
> messages, and the ability to assign messages a priority.

That would be very nice to have ... if an app is running and doesn't
have focus, and it needs to have some kind of action performed, let it
pop up a message on the notification tray.

> Second is the ability to choose proper defaults.  A default that
> reboots your machine is about as brain-dead as you can get.

I would be satisfied with a simple "Ok to restart your computer now?"
followed by "Are you sure?  Type "YES" in the box to complete the restart".

A default of NO wouldn't help much if you happened to be about to start 
typing the word Yesterday when focus was grabbed.

> And finally, I'd like to be able to add certain safeguards especially
> to the reboot process so that I could indicate that if Program A is
> open, reboot can be canceled.

What about if, before Windows started the reboot process, it checked to
see if there were any active applications (not flagged as daemon), and
asks you if you really want to restart.

Of course the whole idea of requiring a restart is kind of silly 
anyways.  I can understand the need if core, kernel level, components 
are being updated ... but (IMO) most stuff should be able to be unloaded 
& reloaded without requiring a restart.

Then again, zonealarm is probably a wired in pretty deep.  So it might 
not be an option.

david