Comment 19 for bug 54127

Example 1: Nautilus steals focus when a USB key is inserted.

Steps to reproduce:

1 Start browser, go to favourite search engine, start typing in "search text" box.
2 Insert USB stick.
3 Continue typing in browsers "search ahead" box.
4 Nautilus opens a new window showing contents of USB stick which steals focus. Keyboard strokes that should be going to browser window are assimilated by Nautilus' "type ahead" function.

Expected behaviour:

1 Nautilus is opened in a background window.

Actual behaviour:

1 Nautilus steals focus.

Reproducible:

1 Always.

Example 2: Update manager steals focus.

Steps to reproduce:

1 Launch text editor and start typing some text.
2 Launch update manager.
3 Set update manager going to download updates.
4 Return to text editor and continue typing text.
5 At some point update manager will display a dialogue which will steal focus. If this should happen to be with a prompt then the default action of the prompt will be taken should you press the spacebar (which should be going to text editor)

Expected behaviour:

1 Update manager will stay in the background. Any dialogues will wait for the user to manually return focus to the application.

Actual behaviour:

1 Update manager dialogues steal focus and assimilate keystrokes intended for text editor.

Reproducible:

1 Always.

These are simply the latest two examples but the problem is now endemic in the Gnome desktop.