Re: Application modal transients windows

[raster rasterman com]

On  6 Nov, Matthias Ettrich scribbled:
->  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....)

it's not "meant": to do anything.. thats completely WM dependant - it
can do what it likes with the transient hints :)

->  Matthias
->  
->  

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