Comment 2 for bug 700739

I thought you just had to change the type of X window that gets created for Gnome menus from one which steals focus to one which doesn't basically? "Menus" (simply a different kind of X window) clearly have a different kind of focus setting than most normal windows do, like Nautilus windows.

You'd think there would be a master control for any and all "menu" GTK windows, so that making such a change wouldn't be required across all programs, but only for the "menu" window class.

But, I guess you know it's not an easy fix like that, since you said it wasn't.