Re: BUG: gtk_window_set_modal() behaviour is not correct in Matchbox

Hi;

on Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:03:49AM +0200, Philippe De Swert wrote:
> 
> I post this on the mailing list as the irc channel is almost empty and
> because the bugzilla is down.
> 

We moved hosts and the mb bugtracker is not back up as yet - Im going
to move to bugzilla. Sorry about this.

> On GPE we discovered the following behaviour with the following versions
> of matchbox components:
> 
> matchbox-0.9.1-r0/                   matchbox-desktop-0.9.1-r0/
> matchbox-panel-manager-0.1-r0/       
> matchbox-wm-0.9.5-r0/
> matchbox-applet-inputmanager-0.6-r0/
> matchbox-panel-0.9.2-r2/             
> matchbox-themes-extra-0.3-r0/
> matchbox-common-0.9.1-r0/
> matchbox-panel-hacks-0.3-1-r2/       
> matchbox-themes-gtk-1.0-r0/
> 
> When a window is set as a modal window the only part of the whole wm
> that will react is the window that has been set modal. However this
> behaviour should be limited to tha application that uses the modal
> window. This is especially annoying with modal input boxes as the
> onscreen keyboard is not access-able anymore. Example programs that
> suffer from this are gpe-timesheet and gtk-dial to name a few.
> 

Yep I know about this issue. Its a 'feature' on meamo ( there UI is
very modal ) but it definetly needs be a compile/run time option and
not in default mb. I know how to fix it but due to lack of time blah
blah.. Now I *know* it really is a problem I will fix ASAP.

Many thanks;

  -- Matthew