diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 3d2ceaa67..a9a52c6dc 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2007-06-08 Elijah Newren + + * src/metacity.schemas.in: + Update the raise_on_click description to try to prevent misuses, + to appropriately warn users, and to stop wasting the time of + application developers. #445447, #389923 + 2007-06-06 Thomas Thurman * frames.c, core.[ch]: changed all tabs to spaces. diff --git a/src/metacity.schemas.in b/src/metacity.schemas.in index 05c24bcac..5929342f4 100644 --- a/src/metacity.schemas.in +++ b/src/metacity.schemas.in @@ -93,14 +93,29 @@ Whether raising should be a side-effect of other user interactions + Setting this option to false can lead to buggy behavior, so + users are strongly discouraged from changing it from the default + of true. + Many actions (e.g. clicking in the client area, moving or resizing the window) normally raise the window as a side-effect. Set this option to false to decouple raising from other user actions. Even when this option is false, windows can still be raised by an alt-left-click anywhere on the window, a - normal click on the window decorations, or by special messages, - such as activation requests from pagers. This option is - currently disabled in click-to-focus mode. + normal click on the window decorations, or by special messages + from pagers, such as activation requests from tasklist applets. + This option is currently disabled in click-to-focus mode. + + Note that the list of ways to raise windows when raise_on_click + is false does not include programmatic requests from + applications to raise windows; such requests will be ignored + regardless of the reason for the request. If you are an + application developer and have a user complaining that your + application does not work with this setting disabled, tell them + it is _their_ fault for breaking their window manager and that + they need to change this option back to true or live with the + bug they requested. See also + http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445447#c6.