Re: Is search dialog really a dialog?

On 9/8/06, Jiri Palecek <jpalecek@xxxxxx> wrote:

Shie Erlich wrote:
> On 8/29/06, Jiri Palecek <jpalecek@xxxxxx > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Karai Csaba wrote:
> > > Yes. The searcher, packer, synchronizer widgets are non-modals.
> > >
> > > That's why you can search / pack / synchronize in the background...
> >
> > But being a dialog (or WM_TRANSIENT_FOR the main window), you
> > cannot move them behind the main widget and/or minimize them
> > without minimizing the main widget.
>
>
> i'm able to put krusader to the forground easily.  just alt-tab and that's
> it.

This greatly depends on the windowmanager you're using. In kwm (or
what the KDE default is called), it works. I use openbox and it
doesn't work there. Neither does in metacity, the gnome default.
Even Qt documentation says that dialogs share their taskbar entry with
their parent -- which is what kwm fails to do. If it shared, it would
not be possible to switch to krusader. You could somewhat ameliorate
the situation by making the viewer NOT child of krusader. You can
switch to viewer then but not to krsader (or, to be more precise -- you

can switch everywhere, but the dialog is still shown in front).

 

i never knew that was a problem, since i didn't use other window managers.

 

can you provide a patch to the way it does work on openwm or whatever wm you do use?

 

shie

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