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| author | Arvind Samptur <arvind@src.gnome.org> | 2003-02-17 05:00:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Arvind Samptur <arvind@src.gnome.org> | 2003-02-17 05:00:40 +0000 |
| commit | 6ed08019c258b947f6bf221b1c79faaa8bd4fdcc (patch) | |
| tree | 000d557ceb51c616eb4cb64f67b154cc9487ccc7 /doc | |
| parent | 00d6f549f9744c87382838b82b0e6ea8292bbe83 (diff) | |
| download | metacity-6ed08019c258b947f6bf221b1c79faaa8bd4fdcc.tar.gz | |
A small writeup on how to use dialogs in metacity. Approved by Havoc.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/Makefile.am | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/dialogs.txt | 32 |
2 files changed, 33 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/Makefile.am b/doc/Makefile.am index f2c0073d..043a1274 100644 --- a/doc/Makefile.am +++ b/doc/Makefile.am @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ -EXTRA_DIST=theme-format.txt metacity-theme.dtd +EXTRA_DIST=theme-format.txt metacity-theme.dtd 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. |