if a window is focused which is not either a dock or a transient in the

2003-10-25  Havoc Pennington  <hp@redhat.com>

	* src/window.c (meta_window_notify_focus): if a window is focused
	which is not either a dock or a transient in the same group as a
	dock, shuffle all dock/desktop windows to the end of the MRU list
	so they won't annoyingly get focus all the time. #123816

ChangeLog

+2003-10-25  Havoc Pennington  <hp@redhat.com>
+
+	* src/window.c (meta_window_notify_focus): if a window is focused
+	which is not either a dock or a transient in the same group as a
+	dock, shuffle all dock/desktop windows to the end of the MRU list
+	so they won't annoyingly get focus all the time. #123816
+
 2003-10-15  Yukihiro Nakai  <nakai@gnome.gr.jp>
 
 	Gettextize metacity-theme-viewer. #121747

src/window.c

@@ -3896,6 +3896,72 @@ meta_window_client_message (MetaWindow *window,
   return FALSE;
 }
 
+static gboolean
+is_in_dock_group (MetaWindow *window)
+{
+  MetaGroup *group;
+  GSList *list;
+  GSList *tmp;
+  
+  if (META_WINDOW_IN_DOCK_TAB_CHAIN (window))
+    return TRUE;
+
+  if (window->type == META_WINDOW_NORMAL)
+    return FALSE;
+
+  /* If a transient-type window is in dock group,
+   * return TRUE
+   */
+  group = meta_window_get_group (window);
+  list = meta_group_list_windows (group);
+  tmp = list;
+  while (tmp != NULL)
+    {
+      MetaWindow *gw = tmp->data;
+
+      if (META_WINDOW_IN_DOCK_TAB_CHAIN (gw))
+        {
+          g_slist_free (list);
+          return TRUE;
+        }
+      
+      tmp = tmp->next;
+    }
+
+  g_slist_free (list);
+  return FALSE;
+}
+
+static int
+docks_at_end_cmp (const void *a,
+                  const void *b)
+{
+  MetaWindow *window_a = (MetaWindow*) a;
+  MetaWindow *window_b = (MetaWindow*) b;
+
+  if (META_WINDOW_IN_DOCK_TAB_CHAIN (window_a))
+    {
+      if (META_WINDOW_IN_DOCK_TAB_CHAIN (window_b))
+        return 0;
+      else
+        return 1; /* a > b since a is a dock */
+    }
+  else
+    {
+      if (META_WINDOW_IN_DOCK_TAB_CHAIN (window_b))
+        return -1; /* b > a since b is a dock */
+      else
+        return 0;
+    }
+}
+
+static void
+shuffle_docks_to_end (GList **mru_list_p)
+{
+  *mru_list_p = g_list_sort (*mru_list_p,
+                             docks_at_end_cmp);
+}
+
 gboolean
 meta_window_notify_focus (MetaWindow *window,
                           XEvent     *event)
@@ -3991,6 +4057,8 @@ meta_window_notify_focus (MetaWindow *window,
               window->screen->active_workspace->mru_list = 
                 g_list_prepend (window->screen->active_workspace->mru_list, 
                                 window);
+              if (!is_in_dock_group (window))
+                shuffle_docks_to_end (&window->screen->active_workspace->mru_list);
             }
 
           if (window->frame)