'Follow the leader' dialogs

[Cristian Tibirna]

On Sunday, 04 August 2002 15:02, Zack Rusin wrote:
> On Sunday 04 August 2002 14:50, Cristian Tibirna wrote:
> > The problem with the approach of your path is that it applies only to
> > KDE/Qt apps. The mechanism would have to be implemented in the window
> > manager in order to have it obeyed by everything (apart most broken
> > apps out there, that don't identify their parent windows correctly -
> > gimp seems to come to my mind for whatever reason, but I believe even
> > gimp can be subdued).
>
> I agree. My approach wasn't an approach. I shouldn't have ever attached
> that diff, it was my fault. I just wanted to know what people think of
> this behavior _before_ implementing it.

Oh! Then my answer is: I don't see the usefulness (even after reading your 
why's and when's). And if an app finds useful such a feature, it should be 
implemented in the app, which would then be able to discern between windows 
that _do have_ to move with the leader and those who don't.

And anyways, apps that need to keep their windows together better use MDI.

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