[Gtranslator-devel] gtranslator & modal dialog

[Andre Lerche <a lerche gmx net>]

Hi,

using gtranslator 1.0.2 I was facing an issue recently and thought that 
it's a bug with my windowmanager xfwm4, but the xfwm4 side has 
enlightened me that it's a gtranslator issue.

Any chance to change this behaviour, cause it's really annoying that the 
popup window is opened behind the root window ? These are all necessary 
items from my original bug report:

Summary: Issues with gtranslator
Description: 	Using current CVS head, when I open gtranslator (version 
1.0.2) with an existing po-file, it opens a dialog window where I can 
edit the header of the po file. This dialog window is opened behind the 
root window and not in the foreground as it should.

Solution from one of the core xfwm4 developers:

The problem comes from gtranslator that maps a modal dialog before the 
window for what it's modal. xfwm4 checks for such a case and ignores the 
modality in that case.

Another problem is that, since the dialog is mapped before the main 
window, the transient field is updated afterwards. That was not 
supported in xfwm4 because that could cause some trouble if a window 
specifies another window that has already a transient relationship, like 
e.g.:

A transient for B transient for C transient for A

Thanks,

Andre