Re: Parity between Gtk+ and the GNOME HIG

[Arvind S N <arvind samptur wipro com>]

Hi,
sorry was replying to a wrong  mail. Sorry once again :)

Thanks,
-Arvind

Arvind S N wrote:

> Hi,
> I guess the fix is in libwnck(CVS HEAD) and not in metacity. :)
>
> 2002-09-17  Havoc Pennington  <hp redhat com>
>
>         * libwnck/window.c (update_transient_for): track a flag for
>         whether we're really transient for an application window,
>         or just marked transient for the root window.
>         (update_state): only skip taskbar for dialogs that are
>         really transient for an application (so standalone dialogs
>         are still on the taskbar)
>
> Thanks,
> -Arvind
>
> Calum Benson wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 22:43, Gregory Merchan wrote:
> >
> > > What is to be done about this?  Looking at the changelog, Gtk+ developers
> > > seem to be busy with back-end or functional fixes and multi-head changes.
> > > I see little or no activity on the HIG. I've tried the route of filing
> > > or changing bug reports for Gtk+/HIG parity, but I'm getting nowhere with
> > > that; maybe I just suck at it.
> >
> > Unfortunately I seem to be the only person with time to actively hack on
> > the HIG these days, and even that doesn't amount to more than an hour or
> > two every couple of weeks at the moment. I've closed out a few bugs
> > recently, but not nearly enough.  And in particular I'm not the best
> > person to know what needs fixing in gtk as opposed to the HIG, as I
> > don't really have enough day-to-day familiarity with hacking gtk code.
> >
> > Obviously one solution would be for me to do more hacking to get a
> > better handle on this stuff, but I can't promise I'll have time to do
> > that any time soon :)  So I guess this is plea for volunteers with gtk
> > nous (and preferably some reasonable usability experience, or at least
> > interest) to give me a hand to help do something constructive with the
> > proposals that people like Greg, Jeff Cape and others have been
> > suggesting in recent weeks...
> >
> > Cheeri,
> > Calum.
> >
> > --
> > CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer       Sun Microsystems Ireland
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