Comment 11 for bug 883000

John, if you need help in understanding a bug report in your project, it is your responsibility to ask for more details. Relatively few Ubuntu contributors work in the same office, so it is inefficient to limit the people who can correct your understanding to those people able to grab you for a quick meeting. (And you haven't been in the office today anyway.)

That said, let's try explaining this one more time.

1. Applications can have multiple windows open. For example, a word processor or Web browser can have dozens of windows open.

2. Applications don't request attention; windows do. For example, if one of those dozens of browser windows is a Google Calendar window, and it opens an alert for an appointment, that particular window requests attention, not the Web browser in general. (In code-speak, the hint _NET_WM_STATE_DEMANDS_ATTENTION is set on the window.)

3. An application tile wiggling can show which application owns the window that is requesting your attention. But it does not show which window is requesting your attention, if the application has more than one window open. (This means that your revision to the description of bug 893196 is simply incorrect.)

4. How often the application tile wiggles has nothing to do with this problem whatsoever. It is completely and utterly unrelated.

5. Bug 893196 is about how often the application tile wiggles. Therefore, it has nothing to do with this problem whatsoever. It is completely and utterly unrelated. That is why this report is not a duplicate.

If there is any particular part of that you don't understand, please specify which part. There are several different ways this problem could be solved, and I'd be happy to discuss those, in this bug report, in person, or in any forum you choose. But that is unlikely to be productive so long as you don't understand the problem in the first place.