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I am really enjoying using Plasma today, and I would very like to have a new feature for this desktop environment: an intelligent focus behavior.
Most of the time, I am using the konsole in order to do things, but sometimes I need to launch some big applications which takes time to be ready to use. When I launch it, I return immediately on Konsole and I type commands. But while I am typing commands, the big application happens to be ready to use and take the focus so I now type to oneself.

I would like that plasma before changing the focus to a new application checks that I am not using another one (by typing for example), and whether it is confirmed (that I am using for example my konsole) then just notify me that the big application is ready to be use.

I think that this is a really subtle and light feature but It would be cool to have this one. Is it possible? What do you think?

Maybe the focus stealing prevention would be helpful to you.

Go to the system settings -> window behaviour -> focus -> focus stealing prevention

It will effect all applications.

If you want it only for specific applications (for example Konsole), you can set it in application menu (alt+f3) > more actions -> special application settings -> appeareance & fixes -> focus stealing prevention.

@Ivan,

Well, indeed it is something which can be used to solution my issue. However this feature seems to not work as expected.
Indeed, until medium, when I launch intellij while typing on the konsole, IntelliJ takes the focus and has a greater z-index than konsole.
When I set focus stealing prevention higher than medium, it makes some functionalities of KDE no more available like ALT+F2 (which disappears as soon as it appears).

Furthermore, ultimately, this is not what I am looking for. I think it would be better that the OS has knowledge to what the user is doing and to adapt the focus depending on what the user is doing.

As a start, it would be:
- if the user is typing, do not steal the focus
- if the user is currently navigating through menu of an application, do not steal the focus
- if the user is doing nothing, steal the focus

When an application cannot be set the focus on because of these rules, it would instead trigger a notification in order to inform the user that his application is ready.

The alt+f2 thing is a bug then.

I agree that would be the sane thing to do - to base the stealing on whether the user is typing or not.

As for the menus, an application should not be able to steal the focus if a menu is open. Menus tend to grab the keyboard completely under X11.

ivan wrote:The alt+f2 thing is a bug then.

Yes, it has been reported as such here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352647

Thank you otherwise for supporting this feature.