Re: Is search dialog really a dialog?

Shie Erlich wrote:
> 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?

Hello.

Well, the WM name is openbox. A patch which "somewhat ameliorates",
eg. does not solve the problem completely, is at

http://www.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~palej3am/krusader_dialog.patch

It merely changes the parent of the viewer. Maybe (I'm not sure),
changing the flags in the constructor is unnecessary.

Regards
    Jiri Palecek


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