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jordanrphoto
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November 22, 2016

P: Stealing focus on launch

  • November 22, 2016
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When launching Lightroom 6.7 on Windows 7, it can take a little while to initiate and do it's thing (even loading from a fast SSD).

Normally that'd be fine as I just bring other programs to the foreground and continue with other tasks while it loads in the background. However, I count 3 times where Lightroom steals priority from whatever other program I have just to show me the next step in its loading process. Please make it stop or only do it at the very final step?

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    Anonymous
    February 7, 2019
    It takes a little longer for me to start, so I go back to a browser or mail and start to type, focus gets stolen and all my keystrokes are sent to LR as shortcurts. That's probably about five keys or so, before I can stop. So now I sent commands, that I dont' know of and can only hope, that they get undone properly with Ctrl+Z.
    That's just bad quality programming and a joke, as no other program does that
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    January 16, 2019
    Ditto.

    It's 2019 and this "bug" is still around.

    Microsoft says it's bad practise to steal focus so why even do it?

    Should it come to a boycott Adobe?
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    January 2, 2019
    It drives my crazy. Really. Solve it!
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    Anonymous
    December 5, 2018
    W764, newest LR Classic: Same annoying Problem
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    May 7, 2018
    Annoying. Totally annoying. You might be able to get away with crap like this on a Mac... but this PC is our tool, respect our time and choice, PLEASE!
    richarde51084430
    richarde51084430
    Participant
    September 23, 2017
    This is such a disgusting bug. I wouldn't let staff go home until it was fixed. Just remove the lines of code that steal focus. It should be fixed the same day it was found. It's ridiculous that it's been going on for more than a week. Now been over a year.
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    ianwhiting
    Participating Frequently
    September 18, 2017
    Not in my versions on Windows 10. All apps and W10 are up-to-date. LR stole focus twice and PS three times in a simple test right now. Very annoying and can lead one to click the wrong button as the focus changes just as one goes to click.
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    Thany2
    Known Participant
    September 13, 2017
    I believe it's been fixed in a recent update... Have you installed the latest version?
    Garconis
    Garconis
    Known Participant
    September 12, 2017
    I came here to post his exact issue with Photoshop. It takes focus WAY too many times. I'm sorry, but I don't just sit there for the 10 seconds it takes to open up. I try to do other tasks during that time, but it's nearly impossible.
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    Thany2
    Known Participant
    November 26, 2016
    10 seconds is more than enough time to launch some auxiliary programs that I'm going to use, or resume typing that message while I expect LR to finish starting in the background. But noooo. None of that. I have to wait for LR to give back control.

    Out of principle, as Jordan states so nicely, no, an application should not. If you push an app to the background, it should respect the user for doing that and stay there like a good boy.
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