Re: GtkMessageDialog convenience method

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

> On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 11:25 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
>> > 	I indeed suggested some time ago the creation of convenience
>> functions
>> > being in charge of creating the dialog, running it and returning. Some
>> > of them are shown below:
>> [snip]
>>
>> Your patches are still here:
>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328831
>>
>> But I still need to investigate with the GTK+ developers exactly what
>> the
>> status is of using gtk_dialog_run(). They seem to discourage it, but I
>> guess there are some situations in which they think it is OK. You may
>> also
>> ask on gtk-list about that.
>
> what?
>
> i thought this new model was one of the centerpieces of modern GTK!
> what is the proposed alternative?

I think it's a general wish to avoid modal dialogs. The alternative seems
to be difficult - handling dialog buttons asynchronously. For instance:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318676

But gtk-list is the best place to ask/research about this.

Murray Cumming
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