pidgin keeps stealing focus from its own password dialog

[Fergal Daly]

Binary package hint: pidgin

This can happen in many ways but a simple example is to have 2 accounts, #1 requires a password, #2 doesn't. While you're still typing in the password for #1, #2 logs in and pops up the chat window. Now your password is not being typed into the password box anymore. If you're really unlucky, #2 auto-joined a channel and you're sending the last half of your password to your IRC buddies.

I don't see a reason to ever steal the focus but especially not from the password dialogue.

[Fergal Daly (fergal)]

Since this bug has not been touched, I filed an upstream bug

http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/4032

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Is this still an issue? Upstream reports this as fixed.

[Fergal Daly (fergal)]

Kind of, the IRC window doesn't grab focus but now the Buddy List window does :(.

I'll go ping my upstream bug.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Do you still experience this issue? I know that there was 6 months of silence here but as hundreds of bugs are filed every week, please forgive me for not following up.

[Fergal Daly (fergal)]

Thanks for asking. I'm still stuck on dapper (!) for the next few
weeks and then will be on hardy. I'll let you know then.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try on jaunty?

[Fergal Daly (fergal)]

Jaunty, no sadly I can't however I've finally got onto Hardy and it
seems that while the password box may disappear mid-typing, focus is
not shifted to an auto-login IRC channel which is the main problem.

[Alex Mauer (hawke)]

This is still a problem in Karmic, though for me the problem is one password dialog stealing focus from another.

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The package your reporting is updated and the issue should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD development release - Maverick Meerkat. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/. Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Alex Mauer (hawke)]

Yes, this is still a problem in Maverick.