Re: NSWorkspace launchApplication problem

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi Yen-Ju,

>   This is a focus issue as I mentioned before
>   and will take effort to fix in Azalea.
>   Long time ago, GNUstep and WindowMaker are patched to work together 
> on focus.
>   The result is that GNUstep follows the WindowMaker's focus model,
> which may be slightly different from other window manager.
>   So I believe it will work better with WindowMaker if it is all you
> want to have.

Thanks for the info. No, I would like to move from Window Maker to 
Azalea as soon as possible, but I can't as long as I have no reasonably 
working dock. AZDock denied to comply so far (question mark icons for 
tools, no icons for firefox, StarOffice,...). :-(

I can reproduce the above mentioned focus problem under Window Maker 
and Azalea. However, Azalea behaves even worse. EtoileMenuServer shows 
TextEdit as active application. I press Command-n and get a new Finder 
window. I have to click back and forth between application windows to 
get things straight again. :-(

But the main problem is identical under both window managers. If an 
application is already launched then [NSWorkspace launchApplication:] 
does nothing, at least with no visual feedback. This approach currently 
can't be used to switch between applications, so e.g. GSDock does not 
work at all. :-(

Thanks for working on this!

Regards,

 Andreas