Remove WindowAttentionTracker #2455
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Fixes #2263
We need to make sure this doesn't unfix #2450 before merging
See #2448 for additional context
Without the AttentionTracker we need some other mechanism to make sure windows come to the front when requested. See prior art in GNOME Shell here and here
There's a lot of ways folks can request an app to be focused, but at the least we need to check for:
One possible solution is having apps use DBus Activation, but there's some additional discussion here
We have elementary/switchboard#349 which fixes the issue for Switchboard. I also filed:
We need to file issues/make branches for:
Also need to check behavior of
Focusing works already afaict for: