GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 648951
Banshee Steals Focus when starting up.
Last modified: 2020-03-17 09:31:02 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 --- 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.
Apologies, I had merely copied/pasted the LP report. This affects the latest banshee as well (2.0)
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.
*** Bug 655171 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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 Its codebase has been archived.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.