From 28a029a4990d2a84f9d6a0b890eba812ea503998 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Perberos Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 23:52:01 -0300 Subject: moving from https://github.com/perberos/mate-desktop-environment --- doc/dialogs.txt | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/dialogs.txt (limited to 'doc/dialogs.txt') diff --git a/doc/dialogs.txt b/doc/dialogs.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1a28e6ab --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/dialogs.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +Dialogs which have no transient parent or root window being +their tranisent parent are the ones which will be visible in +the tasklist. + +All such dialogs will be *always* on top of the window +group i.e they would transients for the whole group. + + +1) Modal dialogs + + + * If you wish to open another window from a modal dialog + + open *only* a modal dialog and set it's transient parent. + + +2) Normal dialog + + + without transient parent + + * If you wish to open another window from a normal dialog + + open either a normal dialog or a modal dialog only. + Set the transient parent for the child dialog if you do not + want them to be transient for all the other windows in the group. + + with transient parent + + * If you wish to open another window from a normal dialog + + you could open any type of window. -- cgit v1.2.1