[Suggestion] Don't steal window focus after play stop

As my project has grown, it takes longer and longer to start and stop from play mode. This is pretty much expected, though kinda a nuisance. More of a nuisance, however is whenever I stop from playing, unity lags for 10-20 seconds freezing the editor. Then, the moment it finishes, it recaptures focus of the editor.

Thus, my workflow is something like:
Test some stuff in play mode
Find things I want to change and stop the editor
Go to Visual Studio to make appropriate code changes
As soon as I start typing Unity steals focus and interrupts what I was trying to do.
Also, due to how much space my workflow uses, it also covers all of the screen with Unity.


Note how unity also covers over visual studio when this happens.
It would be really nice if Unity wouldn't do this. It's very disruptive to my workflow.

 

Bump

 

Yes. It's the most annoying Unity 'feature', making it a physical pain to work on a more or less significant project that takes a few dozens of seconds to load.

User is essentially locked into staring for at the loading bars for half a minute, because it's impossible to switch to anything else - editor will continually keep stealing focus, not only on play transition, but also during scene loads and certain operations. 30 seconds may sound like not much, but when you're actively testing/debugging stuff, it can add to an hour per day spent looking at the loading bar.

 

Not counting the problem when you press start, then work on another thing, and close the other window exactly at the time when Unity takes back the focus...
Now you have to wait for it to finish starting up, and then you have to wait for it to close, and then you have to wait for it to relaunch, and then you have to wait for it to restart...

I have finished writing this message, and Unity still haven't started the game yet.....

 

I've been using StayFocused to get around this problem, which blocks all Windows focus stealing. It works well, although the beta sometimes disappears from the taskbar. I just relaunch when that happens. It's a simple exe that runs at startup.

https://github.com/bladeSk/StayFocused