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> which makes it borderline impossible to press memorized sequences of keyboard shortcuts in quick succession

My favourite is the Windows password dialogue. If you start typing before it appears, your keystrokes are lost.

Even worse, in my opinion, is when you're typing away and a dialog from some other application suddenly decides to pop up and swallow all your key strokes; or, in the worst case, one of your key strokes just happens to coincide with a shortcut key on the intruding dialog so you accidentally accept something without having a clue what the dialog was and what you accidentally accepted.

OS should prevent any dialog from a background application from coming to the foreground of it detected that use is in the process of typing. It's not that difficult of a task after all.

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