GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 136160
GOK's own dialogs obscure it in DOCK mode
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
GOK's dialogs (About, Credits, etc.) are now able to obscure GOK even when GOK is in "DOCK" mode. This seems to be a regression. Note: this may be a consequence of metacity bug #136159 It may be possible to work around/fix this by changing the parameters passed to the gtk_message_dialog calls which GOK uses to create these dialogs.
unless we get a fix for 136159, the only solution I see is to make sure GOK's own dialogs are not never modal.
yes, this is a consequence/side-effect of the fix for metacity bug #96140.
Is there action required on this. If so, seems to me we could have a patch sitting here ready to go if 136159 resolves... Is there any chance for making the release on this one?
I think this will have to wait for 2.6.1. Probably the remedy would involve a change to the way gok'd gtk_dialogs are created.
If 136159 were actually resolved in a way that meant it was "fixed", this problem would just go away. But I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. In the meantime I think we might be able to resolve this by changing the way we create these Gtk dialogs in GOK.
Created attachment 27596 [details] [review] patch to fix this issue and also bug 140882
Patch resets the 'dialog' GDK hint on the GOK dialogs, so that they don't get promoted. Also, as a consequence, needs to set the position policy to 'CENTER'.