Comment 33 for bug 35876

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote : Re: 'Downloading package information' and 'building dependency tree' progress dialogs steal focus

Wouter, update-manager is not stealing focus, it's just starting synaptic which is an another software and there is not easy GNOME api to use a correct timestamp to indicate that was an user action when doing that rather

Thomas, applications slow to start should never still the focus no, the idea of the focus prevention is to avoid getting in the user way no? When you use the application menu, click on an item and wait to get it open it'll get the focus which is right. Now if you start openoffice which takes 15 seconds to start, get an jabber message while waiting and start replying openoffice should go to the background rather than stopping you in whatever you are doing, no?