Plugin update progress dialog steals focus

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Author Name: Johannes Kroeger (Johannes Kroeger)
Original Redmine Issue: 21835
Affected QGIS version: 3.7(master)
Redmine category:plugin_manager
Assignee: Borys Jurgiel

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Have your Desktop Environment/Window Manager set up to not give focus to new windows

Run QGIS

Open the plugin manager

Install/Update multiple plugins at once

The dialog that pops up to show download progress will steal focus from the user if they switched to a different window in the meantime

This just made me cancel (or worse?) a plugin update because I was typing in another window and the dialog stole focus

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Author Name: Alessandro Pasotti (@elpaso)

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I don't understand: that's what modal dialogs do.

What is the expected behavior?

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• status_id was changed from Open to Feedback

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Author Name: Borys Jurgiel (@borysiasty)

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I got it. If you run "upgrade all upgradable plugins", for each of them a new modal modal window will be opened and closed.
So you run the upgrades, switch to another application, and don't expect QGIS will start popping up again and again.

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• status_id was changed from Feedback to Open

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Author Name: Johannes Kroeger (Johannes Kroeger)

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That's it! Thanks for describing it better than me. :)

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Author Name: Borys Jurgiel (@borysiasty)

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Unfortunately personally I have no time resources to improve this behaviour in the nearest future, but I'll keep it in mind. In a long-term solution I guess there will be no modal windows and installing/uninstalling/upgrading will be moved to background and the task manager.

[Pedro-Murteira]

I can no longer reproduce this issue, the updating of the plugins runs in the background without issues nor stealing focus from other apps. (QGIS 3.22.3.)

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