On 4/17/06, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> wrote:
I had brought this up before but did not see a response... should we consider including the Guide to Inkscape?
Since it's HTML, I see little reason to include it instead of just linking to it. Instead what we need is a verb that could open an URL in the default browser. Is this not too difficult to do? If it's not, we could link a lot of useful things from the menu (FAQ, relnotes) and even bind F1 in Xara profile to opening the Guide.
I will write to him this afternoon. I recall from when I last looked into this that when Tor tested his patch the problem was dialog ownership with shared dialogs. Basically, if you minimize one instance of Inkscape, the dialogs get minimized with it which doesn't work so well for our shared dialogs if working with multiple documents. Any thoughts on this?
The dialogs as I coded them sense when the desktop switches and always become transient to the current desktop. This means that if you have two documents open and minimize one, the dialogs remain open on top of the other one (which becomes current). This is a hack, but GTK provides us with no way to do this properly, so I coded this hack and it works. It also means that as soon as the general "make one window transient to another" functionality is enabled on windows, this should also be taken care of by the same mechanism.
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