Re: Proposal on making windows active

On 15 Oct 2007, at 00:31, Antonio wrote:

> Something similar happens when I run a J2EE application, this is  
> what happens:
>
> 1.- I click on the "Run project" in my J2EE application.
> 2.- The "Output window" makes itself active, and I can see the ant  
> task running.
> 3.- I click on the "Server Output" window, to see how well my  
> application deploys, and to see the logs of my application.
> 4.- Since the Ant run task finishes, the "Output Window" makes  
> itself active again, hiding the "Server Output" window.
> 5.- I'm forced to click again on the "Server Output" tab to see the  
> logs of my application (repeating step 3).

It would be nice if the Output window fronted itself only if it  
contained interesting information. For some time we wanted to open  
the output window, when running a j2se application, only if the  
application itself prints something to the output or it asks for  
input. If we did it that way, it maybe helps also in your scenario  
because the fact that the ant task finishes probably isn't very  
interesting.

> Whenever a minimized window wants to make itself active, it makes  
> its icon "blink" in some way, but does not interrupt the user work.  
> The user knows that something has happened in that window, and may  
> click on it to see what has happened *after* he has finished the  
> task at hand.

That's something do consider.

-Jano