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you would think they could figured out that programs not directly opened by the user shouldn't be able to steal focus from the program the user is currently int
by smegger001 3y ago
you would think they could figured out that programs not directly opened by the user shouldn't be able to steal focus from the program the user is currently interacting with. seems like basic UX/UI failure
- causality0 3y agoYou're talking about people who haven't figured out you should be able to edit the options on the right click menu from a single settings menu and that the task bar should expand and contract dynamically with the number of open windows. Microsoft stopped improving the Windows UI around 2006.
- Aerbil313 3y agoYou’re talking about people who use Macs.
- smegger001 3y agodesktop user interfaces on all 3 main operating systems peaked by 2010, at that point everything became aimed at clueless cellphone users.
- account42 3y agoThis is actually pretty hard to get right. Just yesterday I was confused why opening my text editor under KDE didn't pop up a window. Turns out some update to KDE's focus stealing prevention (or some other involved component) changed things so the new text editor window got pushed behind existing windows. This isn't an argument for not trying though.