New applications open in foreground, even during drag+drop

[Alan Jenkins]

Environment: Ubuntu classic, no desktop effects

Just a small surprise, coming from a KDE point of view.

If I'm dragging a scroll bar, or even if I'm currently dragging a window around the screen, new applications open in front of everything else.

In the first case, the new app steals the focus; if I release the drag and start keyboarding, the new app will receive the events.
In the second case, the window I'm dragging will keep the keyboard focus, but stay behind the new app. Which felt really weird.

I think this is what KDE fixes with "focus stealing prevention". Instead of getting in the way, the new app shows itself as a flashing entry in the task manager. Though I'm not sure whether that paradigm is available in GNOME (or Unity, for that matter).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: metacity 1:2.30.3-0ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Aug 19 09:05:42 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: metacity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-19 (60 days ago)

[Alan Jenkins (aj504)]

Still present in 11.10

[dino99 (9d9)]

This version has expired