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September 14, 2009

Stealing Focus

Dear Adobe PDF Converter Print Driver:

When I print to PDF, and then move to another app while you churn away on the print job, you later jump in front of everything else I am working on and cause me to type something into the Save dialog so I name the file some random string of words I was in the middle of typing somewhere else. Because see, I was working in some other app that I had intentionally brought to the foreground, and I had planned to stay working in it until I damn-well decided I wanted to get back to you and pay attention to you. But you couldn't have that.

It's like if I were sitting at dinner and just putting my fork in my mouth, and you called me on the phone, only instead of letting me eat and just leaving a message, you drove over to my house and barged in the door and pushed the mouthpiece of the phone into my mouth.

It's called "stealing focus" and I sincerely hate you for it.

Posted by Charles at 02:13 PM






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