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Bug 242 - Akregator forces external browser to front
Summary: Akregator forces external browser to front
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: TDE
Classification: Unclassified
Component: tdepim (show other bugs)
Version: R14.0.x [Trinity]
Hardware: All All
: P5 enhancement
Assignee: Timothy Pearson
URL:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2010-08-23 23:08 CDT by Darrell
Modified: 2018-05-27 10:59 CDT (History)
3 users (show)

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Compiler Version:
TDE Version String: 3.5.10
Application Version: 1.2.9
Application Name: akgregator

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Description Darrell 2010-08-23 23:08:59 CDT 
akgregator provides the option to use an external web browser to view feeds. When the user selects a feed to read, akgregator forces the web browser focus to the foreground, disrupting the ability to continue browsing the feed list in akgregator.

The design intent of this behavior seems to be to select and view one feed at a time. Awkward.

A normal way to browse the feed links is to open successive feed links in the external web browser but keep the web browser in the background. When done viewing the list of feeds in akgregator, then select the web browser to view the content.

One workaround is to change the akregator focus settings to always stay in the front. That too is awkward because often a user needs or wants to temporarily stop viewing the feed list to focus on another desktop task, but must first remember to minimize akgregator to the panel or tray.

Solution: provide an option to keep the external web browser in the background.
Comment 1 Darrell 2012-06-21 13:09:00 CDT 
I don't know what happened with this. I'm using Trinity GIT daily and unlike KDE 3.5.10, I have no special window settings for Akregator. Selecting a feed link to read the full story opens Firefox in the background.

I don't know whether there was some obscure code cleanup in Akregator, Firefox or twin.

I'll leave this request open for a while yet, in case I stumble across the difference in behavior.
Comment 2 Darrell 2012-10-16 22:45:19 CDT 
Update: This bug still exists in R14.
Comment 3 Darrell 2014-09-20 21:19:33 CDT 
Nominal workaround with Firefox: set browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground = true
Comment 4 Darrell 2014-09-21 15:42:17 CDT 
Regarding the previous comment and using Tabmix Plus, ensure 'Events->Tab Opening->Focus/Select tabs that open from: Other applications' (extensions.tabmix.loadExternalInBackground=true) is disabled.
Comment 5 Darrell 2015-01-30 08:10:50 CST 
Note: QuiteRss, a Qt4 (not KDE) app, handles this behavior nicely.
Comment 6 wofgdkncxojef 2017-09-02 12:26:57 CDT 
i think that this depends just on the browser....