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Multitasking should be disabled when an application sends an important message. #198

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alainm23 opened this issue Mar 12, 2018 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #1900
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Multitasking should be disabled when an application sends an important message. #198

alainm23 opened this issue Mar 12, 2018 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #1900
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alainm23 commented Mar 12, 2018 •
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If, for example, I have a command running in the terminal and I decide to close the terminal using multitasking, the terminal sends me an important message, this message can not be seen since it is not the focus.

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We could improve the user experience if multitasking is disabled and this message takes focus, obviously only if the message is important.
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How do we determine importance? I feel like this would lead to unpredictable/seemingly-nondeterministic behavior for little benefit. As far as I know, dialogs like the one in the screenshot are intended to be completely hidden in the multitasking overview.

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cassidyjames commented Mar 25, 2018 •
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We could attempt to draw any modal dialogs on the respective parent windows, as being modal would imply the app cannot be used without dealing with the dialog. In that case, we'd want to make sure Terminal throws a modal dialog in this case as well.

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Multitasking view: Display modal dialogs on top of parent window. elementary/gala
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