Feature request: Prevent windows from taking focus

[nicolasdejong]

As I was reading from

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13690732

it mentioned that an old version of TweakUI once had this feature. In that thread someone gave the perfect description why you would want this feature:

Stealing focus is more than annoying -- it's dangerous. When a Windows dialog pops up with focus set to "OK", all it takes is a press of the space bar and poof! you've just "clicked" OK on God knows what. Even worse, now that it's dismissed, you can't go back and see what you just OKed.

The next 30 seconds are sure to be spent wondering "what's about to happen? Will the system reboot? Did I just install an upgrade? Or open the firewall? or ???"

I have no idea how much control you have over this in Windows. My suggestion would be to not allow focus change if there was no mouse-click in the last second before the focus change was requested.

[mzomparelli]

Let me look into this. I have an idea how I might be able to accomplish this.