Things that annoy me about UIs

1) Focus stealing

Focus stealing on any user interface pisses me off majorly:

  1) It can cause clicking wrong buttons or triggers
  2) Hitting enter or space at the wrong place and triggering horrible results
  3) It means I have to work slower because I have to wait for the focus to be stolen so that I may correct it and continue my work

2) Lack of feedback

Halting a whole program's UI because it's doing some task pisses me off. Additionally, I should be notified of everything that the program is doing unobstructively.

  1) How long will it be like this for?
  2) Has it crashed?[1]
  3) Does this indicate a problem with *my* system or that the designers didn't bother to put feedback on this task?

[1] If a task is happening for which progress or duration predications cannot be made (e.g. question 1), it is still utterly important that I recieve feedback about this. If the program has a timeout point, it should mention that.

I accept this thread, and the possible trolling involved, by replying:

Focus stealing
lrn2/configure wm. Unless you are in windows.

Halting a whole program's UI because it's doing some task pisses me off. Additionally, I should be notified of everything that the program is doing unobstructively.

Yeah, because console apps like cp, mv, or rm provide lots of feedback by default. You may enable -v, but wow, it floods the terminal. Now that's ``obstructive''. Ok, yes, this is easier to fix with GUI... using threads. You should know what that means.

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>>2
SIGINFO

>>2
I think OP is talking about GUIs.

>>1
Use text-mode command line.  All problems solved.

i absolutely hate focus stealing.
it is not so much when an app steals its own focus
it is when another apps takes focus
because this has something forbidden since windows 98 so for an app to do it the developer had to purposefully program around the limitation
at least program something into the app that reads the idle time before popping up your unimportant dialog

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