Re: Focus of about dialog

[John Emmas <johne53 tiscali co uk>]

On 31 May 2010, at 17:16, Calum Benson wrote:

> You might also consider why you consider the behaviour to be 'undesirable', though. Modal dialogs sometimes 
> cause users more problems than modeless ones, especially if, from prior experience (e.g. the About dialog 
> in other gtk+ apps), they're expecting a familiar-looking dialog to behave a particular way.

And therein lies the problem....  The OP didn't specify which platform he's targeting - but regardless of 
what other gtk+ apps might do, the general trend is that different OS's tend to exhibit different behaviours 
for About dialogs.  For example I just opened half a dozen Windows apps and all their About dialogs were 
modal.  Then I tried half a dozen OS-X apps and all their About dialogs were modeless.  Admittedly though, 
none of them were gtk+ apps.