Explorer Windows opens in the background instead of the foreground

Iqigai commented 3 years ago

Description

What steps will reproduce the problem?

Spyder 4.2.5 running on Windows 10 From the file panel, select a file. Select and click on the "Show in Folder" menu item from the right click contextual menu. The explorer opens in the background, instead of the foreground so it feels that the command did not work and you tend to try again before realizing that the Explorer Windows were openned in the background. This feature could be enhanced by opening the window in the foreground, on top of the Spyder window. Thank you!

Versions

Spyder version: 4.2.5
Python version: 3.9.2
Qt version: 5.12.10
PyQt5 version: 5.12.3
Operating System: Windows 10

Dependencies


# Mandatory:
atomicwrites >=1.2.0            :  1.4.0 (OK)
chardet >=2.0.0                 :  4.0.0 (OK)
cloudpickle >=0.5.0             :  1.6.0 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111     :  20200713 (OK)
intervaltree >=3.0.2            :  3.1.0 (OK)
IPython >=7.6.0                 :  7.20.0 (OK)
jedi =0.17.2                    :  0.17.2 (OK)
jsonschema >=3.2.0              :  3.2.0 (OK)
keyring >=17.0.0                :  23.0.1 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0                 :  6.0.7 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0                :  1.1.0 (OK)
paramiko >=2.4.0                :  2.7.2 (OK)
parso =0.7.0                    :  0.7.0 (OK)
pexpect >=4.4.0                 :  4.8.0 (OK)
pickleshare >=0.4               :  0.7.5 (OK)
psutil >=5.3                    :  5.8.0 (OK)
pygments >=2.0                  :  2.7.4 (OK)
pylint >=1.0                    :  2.7.2 (OK)
pyls >=0.36.2;<1.0.0            :  0.36.2 (OK)
pyls_black >=0.4.6              :  0.4.6 (OK)
pyls_spyder >=0.3.2             :  0.3.2 (OK)
qdarkstyle >=2.8;<3.0           :  2.8.1 (OK)
qtawesome >=0.5.7               :  1.0.2 (OK)
qtconsole >=5.0.3               :  5.0.3 (OK)
qtpy >=1.5.0                    :  1.9.0 (OK)
setuptools >=39.0.0             :  49.2.1 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6                  :  3.5.3 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=1.10.2;<1.11.0 :  1.10.2 (OK)
textdistance >=4.2.0            :  4.2.1 (OK)
three_merge >=0.1.1             :  0.1.1 (OK)
watchdog >=0.10.3;<2.0.0        :  1.0.2 (OK)
zmq >=17                        :  22.0.2 (OK)

# Optional:
cython >=0.21                   :  0.29.21 (OK)
matplotlib >=2.0.0              :  3.3.4 (OK)
numpy >=1.7                     :  1.19.5 (OK)
pandas >=1.1.1                  :  1.2.3 (OK)
scipy >=0.17.0                  :  1.6.0 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3                   :  None (NOK)

steff456 commented 3 years ago

Hi @Iqigai,

Can you please post a screenshot with the behavior you are having?

Thanks for reporting!

Iqigai commented 3 years ago

Hi @steff456, Here are the requested screen captures. I have reduced the Spyder window so that you can see what happens better. Capture1.jpg is the selection of the file I want to see with right click and selecting the "Show in folder" Capture2.jpg shows that the the Explorer window was opened "behind" Spyder, we can see it only because I have reduced the size of the Spyder window to occupy a smaller portion of the screen. I think that the Explorer window should be brought to the front and should open on top of Spyder, that would be more user friendly and in a way more logical. Thank you! Capture1 Capture2