Re: [patch] for gmc

[Ronald de Man <deman win tue nl>]

On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 11:37:23PM +0200, Ronald de Man wrote:
> 
> The second patch gets rid of the modality of the Preferences window.
> Reasons:
> 1. There is no need for the Preferences window to be modal (I think).
> 2. It stops all regular gmc windows from behaving normally.
> 3. As far as I know none of the other gnome applications have their
>    preferences modal.
> (4. One of the reasons I dislike Windows is the annoying fact that
> dialog windows totally block the application.)
> 
Ok, there's a problem with my way of solving this. With my patch, there
needs to be an extra check to see if there already is a Preferences
dialog when the user asks for one. I think if that happens, the best
behaviour would be to raise and give focus to the Preferences dialog.

I just noticed that Properties is now also (or has always been??)
blocking gmc's windows and root icons. I think this is clearly
undesired behaviour.

Ronald