Re: [Nautilus-list] Need help with bugfix in eel

[David Moles <david moles vykor com>]

I don't know if this is related, but I've seen a similar problem
with Evolution where the second popup in the sequence of adding
an email address to my contacts list goes to the bottom.

I've resisted filing a bug against it so far because I don't know
if it's an Evolution bug, a GTK bug, a Sawfish bug, or just a
Sawfish configuration issue (like, I checked the box labeled "send
Evolution contacts dialogs to back) without realizing it.

But I thought if you're working on this for Nautilus I'd send you
a heads-up that it may not just be a Nautilus problem, or a problem
with desktop-generated dialogs.

On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 11:10, Gaute Lindkvist wrote:
> Bug nr. 67978 bothered me so much I wanted to deal with it. Since I
> realized Gnome1 is on it's way out, I'd rather fix it in Gnome2.
> 
> PROBLEM:
> To summarize, it makes sure that dialogs created from the Nautilus
> Desktop, cannot be brought to the top. This means that "empty trash" and
> "are you sure you want to delete" will disappear behind all the other
> windows on your desktop, leaving you to ponder why nothing happened, and
> why you cannot do anything in your Nautilus-windows.
> 
> POSSIBLE SOLUTION:
> Now.. the solution it seems is just to make the dialogs that are created
> with the desktop as parent non-transient.
> 
> This can be done in eel-stock-dialogs.c: show_message_dialog, which I've
> found is the mother of all dialog-creators in nautilus.
> 
> The call below will make the dialog non-transient, I've figured:
> gtk_window_set_transient_for (GTK_WINDOW (dialog), NULL);
> 
> But how do I distinguish between the desktop and any other Nautilus
> window? I figured the desktop is the GDK_WINDOW that has the root window
> as it's parent.
> 
> The problem is that using gdk_window_get_parent(parent->window) will give
> me a GdkWindowType == GDK_WINDOW_ROOT, even if the window I activated the
> dialog from was in fact a regular Nautilus window.
> 
> Can someone help me with a sure way of finding out if a given GtkWindow is
> the desktop? I've been stomping my head against the keyboard for some time
> now.
> 
> Gaute
> 
> 
> 
> 
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