Re: Gtk Printing and gtk_dialog_run

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

Paolo Borelli wrote:
> I haven't yet looked at the new printing api in detail, but from what I
> quickly gathered the high level api involves a run() method for the
> dialog.
>
> This may be problematic for many apps that have multiple top level
> windows (gedit, epiphany, evince etc) since gtk_dialog_run makes the
> dialog modal to the whole application and not just to the current
> window, thus blocking user interaction on all the windows.
>
> Is this the case?
>   
If your different toplevel windows are in separate GtkWindowGroups,
shouldn't the grab only affect other toplevels in the same window group?

James.