Explorer Windows opens in the background instead of the foreground

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)

[Iqigai]

@steff456 Yes I did set my icon preferences to Spyder 2, given that the Spyder 3 icons’ rendering is not to my taste

[ccordoba12]

@Iqigai, thanks for the graphical explanation. Now we understand what’s happening.

@dalthviz, could you test this on Windows to see if you get the same result?