Comment 6 for bug 808777

Sam, what are your thoughts on this? This is a problem with everything in the messaging menu currently. It seems that compiz deliberately blocks focus if the window is on another workspace (if my understanding of PrivateWindow::isWindowFocusAllowed is correct), but then, this doesn't work in Metacity either...

Is there a reason for doing it like this, or could we change it? If not, is there a way we can work around it in Thunderbird? (and Evolution, Gwibber etc...)