Authorization requests pop up and get in the way while typing in chat window

[cheungpat]

What I observed is that the authorization request window pops up in the foreground and become focused whenever Adium is the active application. That is if the user is chatting and typing in the chat window, the authorization request window will get in the way and ask for response. If the user is typing the window will get the keystrokes and this causes unintended accept/deny of the request.

A possible enhancement can be to pop this window in the background and make the duck bounces on the dock.

[jas8522]

You can use the "Contact Requests Authorization" event to manage this the way you like...

[cheungpat]

To reproduce the problem,

1. Connect to an MSN account with Adium
2. Go to Preferences > Events, add "Bounce the dock icon" action to the "Contact requests authorization" (as you said)
3. Keep Adium in focus
4. At another computer (so that Adium is still in focus), use another account to add this account as contact.
5. The authorization pops up, and it catches the focus
6. The dock icon doesn't bounce because Adium already has the attention.

My point is that, regardless of whether you have set any actions with the event, the authorization box pops up, and it catches the attention. If I am chatting in a chat box at the same time and if I type a space as the box pops up, I will be taken straight to the Add contact box, which is unintended.

Pidgin's implementation of this is to display an authorization panel at the bottom of the contact list, and it will not get in the way, especially when you are typing.

Replying to jas8522:

You can use the "Contact Requests Authorization" event to manage this the way you like...

[jas8522]

Ahh yes, this is the same as the email event notification!

[jas8522]

#7923

[zacw]

Fixed in [21565].