Re: A strange thing...

on Fri, May 24, 2002 at 01:55:20PM +0100, Freya wrote:
> Sometimes when I hit the button to send mail in Sylpheed the smtp dialog
> comes up full screen, and sometimes it doesn't! It's actually nicer when
> it doesn't because it's just a dialog thing but it doesn't matter, small
> price to pay for having nice full screen windows most of the time. 
> 
> Curiously, when I pop mail, the window that comes up, always comes up
> full screen.
>

I've never used Sylpheed. Matchbox needs to be told by the app that
the window its mapping is a dialog. The easiest way of doing this is
for the app to specify the dialog window transient for its
parent. Matchbox also trys some other things to figute out if the
window is a dialog but these are very much in progress. I suggest
patching the sylpheed source and setting transient_for ( in gtk -
I assuming thats what sylpheed uses ) on the dialog windows.
 
> The only problem I have found with dialogs coming up full screen so far
> is that when you do a find in dillo, the find dialog comes up full
> screen and you can't see what you have found! Maybe there should be an
> option to make it disapeer when it has found something. I might suggest
> it to them but I don't think they are doing a lot of devlopment at the
> moment as they are trying to raise funds.
> 
I know you used? to be able to specify in the dillorc file for dialog
windows to have there transient_for propert set. Maybe the find window
does not do this. 

  -- Matthew