Opening a file in an app that's already running doesn't bring up the app

[Eduard Gotwig]

When you open a file in any app that's already running, the app does not get focus; instead the app's icon in Plank starts flashing red, requiring you to click it.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

This also happens when you open Scratch from the .desktop as well, so marking as invalid for Files.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

This happens due to focus prevention in Gala, which is inherited from it's Metacity/Mutter roots. Same technique is employed all over WMs.

[Mario Guerriero (mefrio-g)]

It is a WM problem

[Tom Beckmann (tombeckmann)]

I think it should work now, please test.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Still a problem, same test case is valid.

[Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)]

Fixing this can be quite annoying and would mean to give an application focus if it set its urgency flag.
Plank is indicating this with the flashing glow, but automatically switching the window on this condition can mess up ones workflow and this is not wanted from the WM perspective.
So this can be fixed on application-side if needed.

[Ivan Infro (ivan-infro)]

In Freya beta 1, https://bugs.launchpad.net/pantheon-files/+bug/1014120/comments/0 - reproduced (in Luna everything works fine)

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

I can't seem to reproduce this in Scratch anymore

[Fabian Thoma (fabianthoma)]

Same here, can't reproduce in Scratch, seems to be fixed. Files also shows in the front when opening a directory from a different application. The same for Terminal, works like it should as well.