Consider setting default for "Focus prevention windows" to false

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Agree. One can follow a discussion about this at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2256777

It's a non-ideal default configuration.

Wow, nice catch. This makes Unity 7 work 100 times better for me now, and it solves some additional bugs in addition to the ones mentioned above:

- Nautilus copy progress window doesn't hide or get lost altogether
- Apps that were hidden into the system tray (Clementine, SpiderOak, Pidgin, etc.) used to restore to the dock, but not actually appear if another app was maximized. This required restoring and then clicking on the dock icon to actually make it visible. With focus prevention set to off it works correctly.

And another:

- I always had trouble with multiple windows of the same application, i.e. Firefox or Nautilus, upon clicking the dock icon and from there selecting the desired window in the overview spread, it would never appear on top if another one was maximized until I *again* clicked on the dock and *again* clicked on the desired window in the overview spread. Now with focus prevention turned OFF it all works perfectly.

This is like a major new bugfix release of Unity 7 now, resolving all the major annoyances I had with Unity... Thumbs up!

And the shame of it is it would only take a min. to add to debian/patches/ubuntu-config.patch a section changing the default of 1 (Low) to 0 (Off)

   <option name="focus_prevention_level" type="int">
   <_short>Focus Prevention Level</_short>
   <_long>Level of focus stealing prevention</_long>
   <min>0</min>
   <max>4</max>
   <default>1</default>
   <desc>

Related bug #1477068