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Bug 648951 - Banshee Steals Focus when starting up.
Banshee Steals Focus when starting up.
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: banshee
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.0.0
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: 1.x
Assigned To: Banshee Maintainers
Banshee Maintainers
gnome[unmaintained]
: 655171 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-04-29 16:11 UTC by Cornwall
Modified: 2020-03-17 09:31 UTC
See Also:
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Description Cornwall 2011-04-29 16:11:51 UTC
Binary package hint: banshee

Ubuntu Natty (development branch)
11.04

banshee 1.9.5-1ubuntu1
compiz 1:0.9.4-0ubuntu7
unity 3.6.6-0ubuntu1
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Banshee steals focus (twice!) when starting. I think this is a usability problem and can also, to a certain point, be a security problem, since that if you are, for example, writing a password somewhere and then Banshee steals the focus, you'll be writing the password at Banshee's search box (and someone may be looking).

What I expected to happen:
- I'm reading something at, say, Firefox (gedit, evince, instant messaging, etc.), click on the Banshee icon and click immediately on the application I was, to keep reading/doing what I was doing. Banshee should start in the background.

What happens:
- I'm reading something at, say, Firefox (gedit, evince, instant messaging, etc.), click on the Banshee icon and click immediately on the application I was, to keep reading/doing what I was doing. Banshee window steals focus and appears at foreground. I switch again to the application I was before and then Banshee, when it ends loading the music library, steals focus again, appearing in the foreground.
Comment 1 Cornwall 2011-04-29 16:37:36 UTC
Apologies, I had merely copied/pasted the LP report. This affects the latest banshee as well (2.0)
Comment 2 Michael Martin-Smucker 2011-04-29 17:52:20 UTC
I had been meaning to report this for quite some time; thanks so much for doing it.  It's not so much an issue that Banshee steals focus -- I think most applications do that (correct me if I'm wrong) -- it's that Banshee steals focus twice, as you mentioned.
Comment 3 Michael Martin-Smucker 2011-07-23 14:52:50 UTC
*** Bug 655171 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 André Klapper 2020-03-17 09:31:02 UTC
Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived.

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect
reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project
to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the
responsibility for active development again.
See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.