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| Summary: | Prevent Eclipse from stealing focus on start | ||
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| Product: | [Eclipse Project] Platform | Reporter: | Martijn Dashorst <martijn.dashorst> |
| Component: | Releng | Assignee: | Platform-Releng-Inbox <platform-releng-inbox> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | arunkumar.thondapu, christine, david_williams, mail, markus.kell.r |
| Version: | 4.4 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Mac OS X | ||
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Description
Martijn Dashorst
This has been a problem in 4.3(.1/.2) as well *** Bug 438642 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** This is a "Mac specific" solution. Arun (or others?), Is there something that could/should be done for other platforms too? Funny coincidence that two bugs have been filed at about the same time for an issue that has been present for a fairly long time. Markus, you are frequent mac user, right? If so, wanted your perspective on this bug. I see no harm in trying it, BUT ... I do wonder if it would cause some ripple effects in Unit Tests (several assume "the workbench as focus" and not sure how to fix that in test framework). So, at a minimum, we could "try" in Mars stream, but if it starts to complicate unit tests, then back out the change until someone knows how to fix that aspect. (In reply to David Williams from comment #5) > Markus, you are frequent mac user, right? If so, wanted your perspective on > this bug. I'm a private Mac user, and I do test/fix Eclipse on the Mac and Linux to ensure cross-platform consistency. However, I mainly develop on Windows. https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/general/Reference/InfoPlistKeyReference/Articles/LaunchServicesKeys.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20001431-109268 doesn't sound like the Eclipse.app should set LSBackgroundOnly. Note that this option has already been added and removed in the past: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=ALL+LSBackgroundOnly I agree that the workspace chooser should not take focus on startup if the user switched to another app while Eclipse is starting. I'm not sure what the right solution is, but a global LSBackgroundOnly is probably not right. -1 for "just trying it out" once again without further analysis. At least we have to be sure we don't break Shell#forceActive(), which is e.g. used by Debug to activate the debugging workbench window. I don't see the "focus stealing" when I launch the first Eclipse instance by opening Eclipse.app or the eclipse executable in the Finder/Dock. But I see the problem when I launch an "Eclipse Application" launch configuration (with an empty workspace path) out of a running Eclipse. This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant. If the bug is still relevant, please remove the stalebug whiteboard tag. Just had Eclipse stealing the focus while starting up again, so this issue is definitely not stale. |