Re: Application modal transients windows

[Matthias Ettrich <ettrich troll no>]

On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, Bradley T. Hughes wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Paul Warren wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Bradley T. Hughes wrote:
> > > On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Paul Warren wrote:
> > 
> > > > So, do we add another hint indicating application modality, and go and try
> > > > to persuade the GTK people to change their ways, or do we put up with this
> > > > bending of the ICCCM.  
> > > 
> > > application modal dialogs?  if i'm not mistaken... modality should be
> > > handled by the application... not the window manager... unless of course
> > > you are wanting to make sure that windows with WM_TRANSIENT_FOR==root to be
> > > centered on the screen, raised, etc. 
> > 
> > Yes.  The window manager needs hints so that it can eg. keep the dialog
> > above the window for which it is a transient.  For our purposes, an
> > application modal dialog is a transient for more than one window, eg. a
> > window manager would choose to keep it above all windows in the group.
> 
> ok... sounds good then :)  and that reminds me to add better window group
> handling

Isn't  a transient window on top of the group anyway? I thought a root transient
window is supposed to stay  on top of all windows (except other root transient
windows....)

Matthias