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You click a link in your chat app, your browser with a hundred tabs comes to the front and opens that page. How hard can it be? Well, you probably know by now that Wayland, unlike X, doesn’t let one application force its idiot wishes on everyone else.
There’s also older protocols that weren’t designed with this in mind, such as Notifications, StatusNotifierItem (tray icons), or PolKit requests where we cannot change the existing method signatures. Remember how back in ye olde days, KWin’s focus stealing prevention would keep the Adobe Flash Player fullscreen window from showing ontop of the YouTube video you’re watching? With all of this in place, we’ll likely switch on KWin’s focus stealing on Wayland at a low level and make it gradually stricter as applications are being fixed.
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