Comment 37 for bug 346840

Hi Ted. I already have focus-stealing-prevention disabled in compiz, and yet Pidgin is still malfunctioning. So I don't consider this a bug in focus stealing, nor do I consider the current result of showing up on every workspace to be expected behavior. I agree that focus-stealing-prevention is annoying, which is why I disabled it. But having pidgin's window on every workspace is also disruptive, because it gets in the way of keeping a separate workspace.

Can we at the very least have "fight focus stealing prevention" as merely an option, if you think this behavior of showing up on every workspace is the only way to provide this functionality for the subset of users you are referring to? This is currently the only application I use that is behaving in this non-standard way, so it at most should be an option.