[tomboy-list] Modal dialog coordination

[Sandy Armstrong]

On 5/6/08, Boyd Timothy <btimothy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just wanted to bounce an idea off anyone who'd listen.  Tomboy, among
>  other apps, suffers from a problem with modal dialog windows.
>  Specifically, it has problems coordinating modal dialogs and access to
>  the tray icon.
>
>  One such problem:
>
>  Alt+F12 can cause duplicate items in the main menu
>  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531774
>
>  What should happen is that if a modal dialog is open and the user
>  clicks on the tray icon, the modal dialog should be brought to the top
>  of all other windows and the tray icon should do nothing.  This is at
>  least what I think should be the solution.  To do that, creating a
>  modal dialog (or opening the tray icon) would have to be moderated via
>  a single place (perhaps something new for Utils.cs).
>
>  Thoughts?  Suggestions?  Concerns?

Makes sense to me.  Let's do it.  I can't think of any dialogs we have
that should be modal just to a given window and not to the whole
application...

Sandy