Re: Work in Progress: draft 1.9a

[Matthias Ettrich <ettrich troll no>]

> > > This modal thing reminds me of something else: Currently
> > > application-modal windows are not handled very nicely (in Qt anyway).
> > > When you click on one of the main windows, it will be raised and then Qt
> > > raised the app-modal dialog again. This is annoying.
> > 
> > Put it this way: if a window manager allows to raise the main window over a
> > transient dialog, it's a bug in the window manager. For exactly this purpose,
> > Qt has to have code in it to raise the modal dialogs manually :-(
> 
> Icewm certainly does keep the WM_TRANSIENT above. The problem is with
> application-modal windows where there is no owner window and no
> WM_TRANSIENT.
> (I seem to remember especially annoying behaviour where the window would
> be raised on mouse-enter :((( )

I totally agree. I consider application-modal windows bugs anyway.
Unfortuntately it's common practice among some KDE coders.....

We are trying to get rid of them all (the application-modal windows, not the
coders ;-).

btw: there _is_ a TRANSIENT_FOR, it's just that it is transient for the root
window. I don't know if window managers should keep windows of this kind
raised. Opinions?

Matthias