> I hope to see operating systems truly designed around focus rather than multitasking, interfaces that respect attention rather than constantly competing for it
I wish disabling automatic focus changes was a consistently available feature. I'd want that emergent windows, pop-ups, dialogs, or newly opened applications that had been loading in the background, are NEVER able to steal the windows focus.
It's been an instinctive rejection since a child; opening an app that takes some time to load, and during those seconds, keep writing some text in a notepad, only to end up with half phrase mistakenly written onto the program that finally loaded and stole the windows focus. I've always despised that behavior, really. Yeah, I'm fast in my interactions with my machines.
I wish disabling automatic focus changes was a consistently available feature. I'd want that emergent windows, pop-ups, dialogs, or newly opened applications that had been loading in the background, are NEVER able to steal the windows focus.
It's been an instinctive rejection since a child; opening an app that takes some time to load, and during those seconds, keep writing some text in a notepad, only to end up with half phrase mistakenly written onto the program that finally loaded and stole the windows focus. I've always despised that behavior, really. Yeah, I'm fast in my interactions with my machines.