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One of my favorite things about OSX is the fact that applications rarely / never are allowed to steal focus.
by eckza 9y ago
One of my favorite things about OSX is the fact that applications rarely / never are allowed to steal focus.
- rocky1138 9y agoPlug in a phone and a popup steals focus. Some photo thing.
- ytjohn 9y agoTrue, but you probably won't be actively working in some other app when that happens. Your hands were, up until that point, actively involved in connecting the phone to the laptop. It's still a bit annoying - maybe you only wanted to plug in the phone in order to charge it. But I'd say for that moment, the phone is your focus, and the pop-up app is related to that.
- rocky1138 9y agoI plug in the phone to charge it or to test an app I'm writing, so no, the phone is not my focus and the pop-up is not related to what I'm doing. A much better solution is a notification, which is what Windows and KDE do.
- nerdponx 9y agoYou also have the option to disable it once you have plugged in the phone for the first time, in both Photos and iTunes.
- otachack 9y agoFor each new phone. It's beyond annoying and can be embarrassing when Photos opens to reveal your colleague's pictures stored on his/her phone. I've learned to open Photos first and hide as much of the application as possible before plugging in a new phone.
- pinum 9y agoIt's better than on Windows but it still happens to me, especially with update alerts.
- otachack 9y agoIt most definitely does, such as Google Calendar event alerts at least under Chrome. I'm not sure why it doesn't have unobtrusive desktop alerts instead. I'll have to take a look later to see if that's an option.
- girvo 9y agoChrome on macOS always drove me mental, because of their absolutely terrible and reimplemented notifications system. Drove me batty. Nowadays I browse in Safari and develop in Firefox and Safari, so I don't know if it still does this
- emilecantin 9y agoThey actually switched to native notifications as of about two weeks ago.
- valuearb 9y agoI'm still on an older version of Office and it has it's own alerts system that I can't control. Maddening.
- Beltiras 9y agoThere is an option in Google Calendar under settings -> notifications -> Use browser notifications instead of interruptive alerts
- T-zex 9y agoFaceTime FacePalm
- mercurysmessage 9y agoI rarely, if ever, have focus stolen on my windows machines.
- ajanuary 9y agoFor a while I was using the Rocket.Chat desktop client. Sometimes an alert would just flash the taskbar, other times an alert would steal focus. I couldn't work out why only sometimes.
- memco 9y agoWhile I mostly agree with you I recently had a corrupted keychain that I was trying to fix. In the process I was transferring items from one keychain to another and had 100+ dialogs pop up asking me to enter my password to allow each individual item. Once started, there was no way to cancel the dialogs easily, no way to bulk authenticate, no way to see/sort the windows and no way to associate any particular dialog with any particular to know where I was in the process if I did decide to abort and start again. Fun times. Granted this was an edge case and is not the norm. It was still a pretty horrid UX.
- andypants 9y agoI have the opposite experience. Focus stealing is such a problem for me in OSX to the point where I actually noticed the issue. I'm sure there's focus stealing in windows as well but never to the point where it got in the way of work. > never are allowed to steal focus How are they not 'allowed'? Because it is certainly allowed. Just about every app steals focus.
- r00fus 9y agoThe biggest offender for me is Webex on macOS. Start conference, steals focus. Presenter switches, steal focus. Really annoying as I multitask (often to slack for coordination) at the same time.