Don't steal focus to notify people about updates.

[DianaNites]

This program thinks it's the most important thing in existence and decides it's a good idea to steal focus from whatever you're doing and open itself just to say it has an update.

Don't do that.

[bengotow]

Haha sorry for the hassle - are you saying the app comes to the foreground? How is it stealing focus exactly?

[DianaNites]

Yes, it comes to the foreground, that is what stealing focus means, yes.

Whenever there is an update, Mailspring will restore itself from the notification area and force itself to the foreground. Particularly an issue when it decides to do this in the middle of a game. Particularly multiplayer games. Particularly ones that don't like being switched out of.

[bengotow]

Ooof that's no good - I guess this is on Windows? Let me see if I can get this fixed.

[bengotow]

Hey! Just wanted to follow up - it looks like we can fix this by making the app say "An update has been installed, click OK to restart" similar to the way VSCode does. Unfortunately we need to test this really carefully and make sure it's safe to continue using Mailspring after the update has been installed / without restarting. I'm going to assign myself to this and we'll make the change for the next major release, but there may be an update or two with annoying disruptive restarts until then. Stay tuned!

[DianaNites]

Restarting is fine and unrelated to this issue?

this happens when it notifies you that there is an update available, at which point you can click to install it? But it steals focus to tell you that.

[DianaNites]

Like this, which just stole focus seconds ago. I was in another application, Mailspring opened itself, waited a second or so, and then got around to displaying the notification.

[CodeMouse92]

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