[Pidgin] #7693: Always on top buddy list hides child dialogs

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#7693: Always on top buddy list hides child dialogs
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 Reporter:  Daniel Beardsmore  |           Owner:  datallah       
     Type:  defect             |          Status:  new            
Milestone:                     |       Component:  winpidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.5.2              |      Resolution:                 
 Keywords:                     |   Launchpad_bug:                 
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Comment(by deryni):

 The Add Buddy dialog has no reason to be modal to any windows, and as such
 is not. It is set to have the buddy list window as its parent though. So
 the question is who is responsible for keeping it above the buddy list
 window, I maintain that it should be the job of Windows to do that, it
 would appear that Windows disagrees.

 Modality is generally to an entire application, I cant't at the moment
 think of any dialogs that are modal only to a single window at the moment
 (though I certainly imagine there are some).

 The real issue here is that the Add Buddy dialog is being set to be a
 "transient child" of the buddy list window, it shouldn't be. Were it not,
 Windows would place it as a normal window and this problem would be
 mitigated down to the level of 'normal' windows interacting with an
 always-on-top window.

 Displaying the Show menu does not cause the Buddies menu to disappear for
 me.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/7693#comment:12>
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