Bug#305650: openoffice.org: Openoffice grabs focus several times during its slow startup
Package: openoffice.org
Version: 1.1.3-8
Severity: normal
Openoffice gabs focus several times during its slow startup.
This is a problem. After starting openoffice, I type
several commands in some xterm while waiting for the slow start.
Or I write a sentence or two in some other editor. Openoffice
suddenly grabbing focus means that some typing ends up in
openoffice instead, and I have to repeatedly click other
windows to keep focus where I want it. This is annoying, openoffice
tries to grab focus and go on top even though it is is far from
ready to use.
It is of course reasonable that openoffice grabs focus once, but not
that it does so over and over, 3-4 times for opening a single document
and n times more if opening n documents at the same time. Grabbing
focus once for each documents is silly - I can't start
working on the first one because each of the other documents
take turns getting in my way. This behaviour means openoffice
gets in the way of itself as well as in the way of working with
other apps.
This program is already a slow starter - simply omitting those
focus grabs would be a lot less annoying and contribute
towards a slight speedup and smaller codebase too. A program
that needs several seconds to start should seriously consider
not grabbing focus at all, so as to not disturb the user.
Helge Hafting
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'experimental'), (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-rc2-mm1
Locale: LANG=no_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=no_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages openoffice.org depends on:
ii dictionaries-common [openoffi 0.24.10 Common utilities for spelling dict
ii openoffice.org-bin 1.1.3-8 OpenOffice.org office suite binary
ii openoffice.org-debian-files 1.1.3-8+1 Debian specific parts of OpenOffic
ii openoffice.org-l10n-en [openo 1.1.3-8 English (US) language package for
ii openoffice.org-l10n-nb [openo 1.1.3-8 Norwegian Bokmal language package
ii ttf-opensymbol 1.1.3-8 The OpenSymbol TrueType font
ii xml-core 0.09 XML infrastructure and XML catalog
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