Gnome doesn't focus after app operation an already open app

[unggnu]

Binary package hint: metacity

If I open a link in mail program. im or something like that and Firefox is not running it is started and gets a focus but if Firefox is already running the link gets loaded in Firefox but the mail program still has the focus so you think nothing happens. The most annoying problem is that Firefox opens for some operation like downloads a new window. If you change back to main Firefox and click another download which appears in the opened popup you have to change manually to it. But this is not only Firefox specific since it doesn't happen in KDE or Windows afaik. Same happens with Totem and I guess many more appliations which allow only one instance.

If someones want to check it.
1. Open Nautilus and make it full screen.
2. Open a video in Totem.
3. Change back to Nautilus.
4. Start another video with Totem.
=> Totem plays the new video but doesn't get focused.

Same happens with Evolution. If it is already running and you start it again another instance is started but it gets not focused. This doesn't happen if no Evolution is running.

It is very likely that people click several times on a file until they realize.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. That might be a design decision, there is no reason to change the focus, with the current way you can add several tabs to an open firefox window for example. Closing, if you don't agree better to open a bug on bugzilla.gnome.org, they are those who are writting the software