deiconify is just plain f*ucked in windows

[David Bolen]

gerson.kurz at t-online.de (Gerson Kurz) writes:

> I think you're using Windows 2000 :) Its a "feature" that "prevents
> applications from stealing the focus" (their wording, not mine). You
> can read about it in MSDN. To me its just a plain annoying BUG. 

I have to tell you though, applications stealing focus is one of the
most annoying things about Windows to me, so I'm actually a big fan of
such a change.  I can't tell you how annoying it is to start up some
application that takes time to initialize, while I'm working in Emacs
in the foreground and suddenly have it take over my system.  And then
try to get back to Emacs, as it continues to grab back the focus for
each of a bunch of new initialization messages.  About the only thing
more annoying is when you lose focus when a dialout connection
succeeds so it can display the baud rate down in the task bar.

Unfortunately, the problem is that so many Windows programs do "steal
the focus" for no good reason (whether explicitly or implicitly
through some internal behavior of various Win32 calls I don't know),
that you really do need a system level control.  And this then
adversely impacts those programs that actually have a reason to do it.

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-- David
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