Comment 11 for bug 54127

Update manage has just stolen the focus 3 times.

The second time it put some sort of message up whilst I was typing a search into Firefox and, as the space bar is accepted as a "press of the highlighted button", I just about saw the window disaapear out of the corner of my eye whilst I was moving on to my next search term.

As I did not even properly see the dialogue this effectively means that Update Manager has asked me a question about some potentially problematic change to my system which I have just unwittingly applied. Alternatively I have must missed an important notification about the update.

This focus stealing behaviour is totally unacceptable Windows 95 style programming. An application that does not have the focus should put up any new windows in the background. I should be able to decide when I wish to give my attention to a program. They are working for me, I am not working for them.

This bug should be allocated the highest prioity as it basically makes Ubuntu as unusable as Windows.

It is not just Update Manager that behaves in this fashion so I shall document each and every instance of this behaviour as it happens. However due to X currently being broken on my machine (see bug #158002) this may take a while as I am currently unable to use my Ubuntu machine as a desktop (screen resolution of 50Hz makes it unusable)