Re: [PATCH] GtkMessageBox should set empty window title by default

[Tim Janik <timj imendio com>]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:

> Still nobody responding sofar :-(
>
> It's a three line patch
>
>
> Could somebody please review the patch at
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323316
>
> I haven't had a response on the patch I attached in bugzilla in the last
> two months.

i really think the HIG is seriously misguided here. every window should
possibly have a title for obvious reasons (identification when cycling
windows, for identification by the window manager, to allow titles/tooltips
in window lists, to give the user an identification for shaded mode, etc).

in the pointed to section, the HIG seems to think of alerts as a temporary
borderless window (much like a tooltip) which the user has to answer before
he can (continue) to do any other task. but then, it really had to be
implemented that way accompanied by a global grab (suck!). however i think
that kind of behaviour would most rarely be wanted by users. instead, the
HIG should be fixed to relax alert requirements to approximate normal
notification dialogs, albeit with some emphasizis that can be implemented
in the window manager. in that case, borderless or titleless alerts could
be supported by some window manager theme, but this shouldn't be enforced
on the toolkit level.

> Thanks
>
> Jaap

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