modal dialog locking user's desktop

[David Faure]

On Monday 24 November 2003 23:08, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> You can see a similar effect with KMail. If the connection to your pop
> server is broken, KMail pops up a modal dialog saying so. The dialog is -
> i think - centered in KMail's window. If you accidentally click on KMail's
> main window, instead of on the "OK" button of the dialog, KMail's main
> window comes to the front but is inactive, since it's got that modal
> dialog up. Your only hint is that KMail doesn't work anymore, and there's
> an extra kmail-icon-task in the taskbar. Again, time for alt-tab. Almost
> makes you wonder if it makes _sense_ for windows to be able to move in
> front of modal dialogs.

This only means a parent widget pointer is missing (kwin doesn't know who is
the parent of the dialog box).

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David FAURE, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).