Re: Open link w/o bringing firefox to the foreground

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From: Rainer Dorsch <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Open link w/o bringing firefox to the foreground
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2025 21:58:06 +0200
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In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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On Sunday, 20 April 2025 19:47:49 CEST Garry T. Williams wrote:
> On Sunday, 20 April 2025 11:56:11 EDT Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> > I upgraded to Debian trixie and am now using kmail 6.3.3 (24.12.3),
> > before I was using 22.12.3. I noticed if I now click on an URL, the
> > link brings firefox to the foreground even if it is on a different
> > virtual desktop. Is there a way to open URLs in the background?
> 
> Don't you just love it when the developers arbitrarily decide without
> notice that a feature of the UI should be changed?  I have the same
> problem in Fedora (24.12.3, too).
> 
> This change happened over a year ago when someone broke links in
> kmail.  I reported the broken links problem and they eventually fixed
> it.  (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482568)  My original bug
> report also mentioned your problem, but they closed it as a duplicate.
> 
> This message reminded me that the developer claimed this was a new
> issue and should have a new bug report it.  I just opened a bug report
> for this behavior.
> 
>     https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503074

Thanks Garry for following up and opening the bug report.

I subscribed, let's see how it goes. Probably the Debian users have to live 
with it for many months, since Debian 13 is close to the release and I don't 
think that there will be a 24.12.4 release.

Thanks again
Rainer
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Rainer Dorsch
http://bokomoko.de/
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