On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 08:51:47PM +0000, Daniel Pope wrote:
J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... wrote:
There is an inconsistency between decorations of dialogs due to old-C-style dialogs and new C++-style ones. Decorations are the minimize, maximize and close buttons. The old dialogs (eg. Fill&Stroke) have all 3, the new dialogs (eg. Transform) only have the close button. What is the desired decoration style? I vote for only the close button, and perhaps a button to 'collapse' it (minimizing on the spot).
Actually, now I try it, I don't experience it that way at all.
In KWin I get maximise and close buttons for most dialogs, but only a close button on Document Properties.
In Metacity I get a mixture as you describe.
In either WM, the most broken dialog is the Document Background colour window, which appears as a separate icon on the taskbar and doesn't focus with the main window, like other dialogs do.
Likely one of the key things in getting the dialog inconsistencies solved is to get all the remaining non-gtkmm dialogs ported over to gtkmm.
Basically, stuff in src/dialogs/ needs to be recoded into C++/gtkmm and moved into src/ui/dialogs. The work's about half done, so there are plenty of examples to follow, if you don't know gtkmm.
Bryce