30 Nov
2003
30 Nov
'03
12:15 a.m.
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 02:51, Bryce Harrington wrote:
They gave Mental some feedback regarding real-world user feedback they were getting on this. Hopefully he can comment further.
The short answer is that in practice the experience the GIMP users had with transient-ish behavior is that it caused major problems for users who used ffm/sloppy focus and/or wanted to work fullscreen, hiding/showing individual dialogs quickly as required.
And this was just the result of some WMs interpretation of more normal window hints. They ultimately ended up having to make the WM hints somewhat configurable to deal with situations where the WM, user and the GIMP would end up fighting each other.
-mental