Bug 699051

Summary: When opening, for example, the downloads window in firefox, you never know what will come to the foreground
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer>
Component: gnome-shellAssignee: Owen Taylor <otaylor>
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Description Jeff Moyer 2011-04-22 19:46:45 UTC 
Description of problem:
Opening the downloads dialog in firefox (by selecting tools->downloads), the downloads dialog opens, but is not necessarily brought to the foreground.  Sometimes, another running application is brought to the foreground.  Other times, the firefox window remains in the foreground, with the dialog in the bckground.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-shell-3.0.0.2-2.fc15.x86_64


How reproducible:
~50% of the time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start some application, like gnome-terminal
2. Start firefox
3. select tools->downloads

If the problem does not appear, close the downloads dialog and repeat step 3.
  
Additional info:
This seems to be a problem with other applications as well.  Additionally, after closing the dialog window, sometimes a different application is then brought to the foreground.
Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2011-04-23 20:11:22 UTC 
A different application being selected when you close a window is:

 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620744

Is there some problem you are describing in addition to that?
Comment 2 Jeff Moyer 2011-04-25 13:12:28 UTC 
Yes.  When /opening/ the firefox downloads dialog, it is not always brought to the foreground.  I've also witnessed the restacking on close, but that's not what I've described here.  Let me know if I can provide more information.

Thanks, Owen!
Comment 3 Jeff Moyer 2011-07-14 13:38:04 UTC 
I'm no longer able to reproduce this with gnome-shell-3.0.1-4.fc15.x86_64.