Re: Gnome2::About

["muppet" <scott asofyet org>]

The Saltydog said:
> Using
> $ga->set_transient_for($main_window)
> doesn't change anything in the behaviour of the window. Main window
> remains clickable and works normally with the Gnome2::About above it.

A little sandboxing shows that this (transient child behavior) happens without
application code intervention.


> I have tried with $ga->set_modal(TRUE) and this works for this first
> about window (it is really modal in respect to the main window) but
> the oddity is that if you open the second dialog by clicking on the
> "Acknowledgments" button, the second dialog's Close button doesn'ìt
> work anymore.

It sounds like this is happening:  about dialog is made transient child of
main window.  app code makes about dialog modal, so it is the only one that
accepts events (at the x server).  about dialog creates a new transient child,
but does not know that it needs to make the child modal, so the about dialog
is still the only one getting any events.

> From what i can tell, Gnome doesn't want About dialogs to be modal.  :-/

Also, Gnome2::About has been replaced, as of gtk+ 2.6, by Gtk2::AboutDialog. 
I don't have gtk+ 2.6 on this desktop, so i can't really tell you if it
exhibits the same behavior.


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