rainbow update window popping without care (annoying ergonomic bug)
Hi,
I was typing a rather long message on rainbow PC client when suddenly the update window popped up telling me that there was a new version of Rainbow. Sweet thing to propose, but because i was in the middle of typing a word, i probably used the letter that was linked to the "OK" button. maybe an O (OK) or a Y (YES) or a S (START) or a G (GO),... really no idea.
I couldn't see very well which key it was because the window just flashed and closed my rainbow to download the new version, while losing my long message at the same time!!!
I personally consider that it is an ergonomic *bug*, but since it does exactly what it is supposed to do and nothing crashed it doesn't fit into bugs and has to be a new feature request -as annoying as the current rainbow behavior is-
It happened to me many times with the mouse click in several other software, say you are using the software peacefully clicking here and there to do your things, when suddenly you have a window appearing right under your mouse, and Murphy's law state that your mouse was obviously right under the worst choice button.... first interrupting what you were doing, and second activating something you didn't want, like "OK reboot computer now" from a scheduled reboot.
Something has to be done to prevent these situations of stolen focus.
My suggestion to solve the problem:
whatever the *non priority* window that shall appear *without the user to ask for it* by his actions, it cannot pop up when the keyboard or the mouse is busy for say the last 5s for example and it features NO accelerator key. in other word only allow those window to appear when rainbow is not used for some time and protect it from unlucky keyboard hit.
AND whatever the *priority* window that shall appear *without the user to ask for it* by his actions, it will pop up but with NO accelerator key and a give a 1 or 2 second delay before the mouse can click on any of it's button!
for *priority* i thought about the "receiving call" window, you obviously cannot delay the call in this case, but you have to let the user decide what he clicks, not let him mistakenly click on the wrong button while he was watching the profile of someone and doing a copy/paste on the phone number for example. or whatever the user is doing in the bottom right of it's screen.
the brain has to process the new window before decide if the hand shall click or not and where! 1 second shall do the trick but maybe there are more scientific numbers and good ergonomic practice.
Many thanks
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