Long-loading apps steal focus after user changes app before loading finishes.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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One Hundred Papercuts |
Opinion
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Take for instance launching an application (GUI) that takes a long (it's arbitrary, I know) time to load (think of IntelliJ or Eclipse). Start that process, then open a terminal. Start working in that terminal. When the long loading application finally appears it will gain focus. If that application pops up any dialogs, they will grab focus. This is incredibly annoying and a security flaw (IMHO), since it can grab text from another application (such as a password) and have it displayed on the screen. It can cause a user to input information that they did not intend to, well, input.
Plus, this is just annoying. I know it exists in KDE and in GNOME. It's an X thing I believe. But, it just isn't the behavior anyone expects.
Not sure if I should have set it as a security vulnerability or not.