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Idea
#5239: Prevent Update Manager from stealing focus
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Written by Eldmannen the 20 Mar 08 at 20:28.
Category: Others.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
The "Update Manager" steals focus several time.
When I click the Reload button in update-manager, the "Downloading package information" progress dialog takes a few seconds to start, with the main window's widgets disabled. In this case, I switch to another application, and the download progress steals the window focus. If I switch again to another window, the "building dependency tree" progress dialog steals focus again.
** This idea is pretty similar to idea 5237 but still different. This one ask for a update-manager which does not steal focus while the other ask for the possibility to automatically install updates without showing any window.
Attachments
 Bug #35876 : 'Downloading package information' and 'building dependency tree' progress dialogs steal focus
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Comments
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drewtown wrote on the 21 Mar 08 at 17:10
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Very annoying and very good idea, there is absolutely no reason to steal focus. If we didn't have it on it in the first place we obviously didn't want to see it.
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revzoe wrote on the 16 Apr 08 at 06:24
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I would vote this up several hundred times if I could. The update-manager steals focus at least 3 times during an update. This is an operation that the competition manages to do without you ever noticing, yet I must be informed of it three times *after* I have started it on purpose. Not suggesting we move to user ignorance of updates, but if it's something we have to click, and enter password for, it's pretty obvious we know it is running.
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ph0nph0n wrote on the 16 Apr 08 at 19:26
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An option to send the update-manager back in the system tray would be ace. Perhaps something like a checkbox enabling docking as soon as the update starts. Of course, that checkbox would keep its status over time.
Also we don't need, in my opinion, that popup showing the progress - i mean integrating the progress status into the main window would be much more pleasant than having two windows, as it would be even less obtrusive.
Windows updater is much better on that point of view, except for two things:
- it goes back to the system tray even if you don't want to,
- it keeps displaying that tooltip saying "hello i'm hidden over there".
But the main point is: it's unobtrusive (well, except when it *wants* you to reboot...)
I'm not aware about Leopard update manager, may some good ideas to pick there too.
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egg-sandwich wrote on the 18 May 08 at 14:28
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This happened to me right now. Some big update was installing in the background. As I went to click a button on firefox, some dialog popped up and I clicked something. Have no idea what! It could have been the "reboot now" button, the "undo the install" button ... I don't even know what was on the dialog.
Actually Windows is generally BETTER for this now. I haven't had such a problem in Windows for a long time, so it was a nasty shock to see it here...
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