Running system-settings again sometimes does not bring existing window to foreground

[Cas]

Testing with Oneiric 11.10 I have found that if I have the system-settings window already open then clicking the indicator menu item 'System-Settings...' does not bring the existing window to the foreground.

It does work as expected if you simply open system-settings and then change focus to another open window but if you open any of the options then it stops working.

gnome-control-center: 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu3

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

I cannot seem to reproduce this with Gnome Shell, seems to be an issue specific to Compiz

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

No pedro, it's not specific to compiz, it happens in unity-2d as well and when calling gnome-control-center from a command line (try without the shell menus but by running the command)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

cannot seems to reproduce it from the command line, but lets file it upstream, they might know better.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

comment from upstream : "gnome-control-center just calls gtk_window_present(). How to act upon it is up
to the window manager (which I guess isn't gnome-shell)."

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

gtk_window_present() indeed doesn't always present the dialog, it might just claim for attention when things are on a different workspace, we should maybe change gnome-control-center to use something else then

[Holger Seelig (holger-seelig)]

This happens when opening gnome-control-center from the desktop menu bar. An opened instance of the control-center opened from sound menu does not come to front.

[Holger Seelig (holger-seelig)]

This is especially for "normal" users confusing! Because nothing happens.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

oneiric has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the oneiric task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".