Re: Hiding modal dialogs

[David Nečas <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 07:55:36PM +0000, John J Lee wrote:
>> With a hidden modal dialog you can neither use the rest of the UI nor
>> bring the dialog back (because you must do *something* to bring it back
>> but the UI is non-responsive).
>
> I don't think that's true: the UI is responsive after popping up another  
> modal dialog.

Yes, but then

1) The new modal dialog is a subdialog of the orignal one with the
corresponding nesting of the main loops.  You want to hide a modal
dialog when it pops up a `child'?  Maybe this was not considered to be
sensible scenario by Gtk+ devs (or simply was not considered).  To me it
sounds a bit fishy.

2) The new modal dialog is not a subdialog of the original one.  Then
you got into a logical contradiction as each of the modal dialogs should
block the other (visible or not).

Yeti