Re: Stealing focus!

[Dan <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:33 AM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I really really REALLY hate applications that steal focus.
You mean to tell me it's not just Lotus Notes?

If it helps, I have had some success with TweakUI, part of Microsoft's free
PowerToys.  There's a setting that allows you to control whether
applications can steal focus.  I'd say it works most of the time.
Inexplicably, seemingly at random, the setting gets reset.  I know this
because, all of a sudden, Lotus Notes will steal focus on me, and I'll go to
check TweakUI and, sure enough, it's been reset.

Like others have expressed, it is unexcusable that something in the popup
can be "activated" without some user-confirmed action.  Maybe only a
mouse-click should be able to activate a response.  Wouldn't that take care
of most of the problems?

- Dan