Window not gaining focus on tab creation request

[D-Maxwell]

What feature or improvement do you think would benefit Files?

Upon creation of a new tab, the window does not gain focus, nor does it move to the front layer.

That is the behaviour I would've expected, although I am unsure whether this feature is simply not handled at all by the application as it could simply be a limit of the framework it is built on top of, or if only some supported requests bring the window forward.
Note that I have no example in mind of the latter being an eventuality.

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Say I were to open the user's Downloads folder through their browser ; this would send a request to create a new dedicated tab, possibly in the last open Files instance or in a new one if there were none ; and that would be it.
The window would not gain focus, and would instead stay hidden in the background, without even pulsing its corresponding taskbar entry.

Requirements

The ability to move the user's focus to an instance of the Files app on demand. Being able to ask the shell to do so I suppose.

Files Version

2.5.21.0

Windows Version

10.0.19045.2788 | Windows 10 Pro | Version 22H2 | OS build 19045.2788 | Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.4190.0

Comments

Given an endpoint, one could for instance make an AutoHotKey script that would then focus the window.
I have no knowledge of such an endpoint existing. Besides, that would not be a great workaround in the long term, as I assume this has not yet been resolved because of a limitation in the stack.

[Josh65-2201]

Thanks for the feedback, Merging with #10844. You can check there or click subscribe in the right sidebar for updates.

[yaira2]

@D-Maxwell thank you for the detailed request, this is indeed a limitation with the framework (microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml#7595) but we're also tracking it in #10844.

[D-Maxwell]

My apologies, I was not certain this had the same root cause as #10844.

[yaira2]

@D-Maxwell we came up with a workaround in #13588.