[Pidgin] #4032: pidgin steals focus from its own password dialog

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#4032: pidgin steals focus from its own password dialog
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  Reporter:  fergal        |       Owner:                           
      Type:  defect        |      Status:  new                      
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:                           
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.2.1                    
Resolution:                |    Keywords:  security, password, focus
   Pending:  1             |  
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Changes (by deryni):

  * pending:  0 => 1

Comment:

 The Message Notification plugin controls the use of the urgency hint for
 the conversation window, but the focus stealing behaviour of *new* windows
 is not related to that hint. New windows are handled by your window
 manager however you tell it to handle them (which is likely why the
 conversation window gains focus, and possibly the buddy list window as
 well if it starts unshown and needs to show itself).

 To be clear, there is a difference between 'stealing' or 'taking' focus
 and being given focus. In many (most) window managers newly created
 windows are *given* focus by the window manager, the application has no
 say in that (well some recent freedesktop.org specifications try to let
 the application have a say but just end up mostly annoying people in my
 experience). So we need to differentiate between the cases of new windows
 and existing windows when discussing this. So concrete examples are good.

 There was an issue, unrelated to urgency, that caused new chat rooms
 (possibly only on IRC) to move focus when joining, I believe that has
 since been fixed. So if you haven't tried this with 2.4.2 you should.

 When the Urgency hint option is on in the Message Notification plugin the
 plugin sets the Urgency flag in the WM_HINTS struct on for the
 conversation window.

 The buddy list sets the urgency flag on the buddy list when connection
 errors occur requiring the addition of an error mini-dialog or a change of
 an existing mini-dialog and when a buddy list 'alert' or 'headline' is
 added. (All only when the buddy list doesn't already have focus.) Buddy
 list alerts are things like buddies requesting authorization, etc.
 Headlines are things like mail notifications (when the mail notification
 dialog isn't shown).

 The mail notification dialog sets the urgency flag on itself when it is
 visible and new mail comes in.

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