[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):

 I was speaking of modality in general not specific to Windows. Modality
 certainly can work in both ways.

 I don't recall Explorer having window modal dialogs (but as I'm not in
 front of Windows at the moment I can't check my memory), and in my
 experience the only time Explorer (the file view part) continues when one
 window is frozen is when the user has chosen to run them in separate
 processes, a setting which last I recall (as of XP at least) was not the
 default.

 Note that there is a difference between saying that a single thread of a
 given Explorer window has frozen and saying that the window itself has
 frozen.

 I am rapidly approaching the very limits of my understandings of the inner
 workings of Windows and as this branch of the conversation is not
 particularly useful in resolving this ticket I would like to suggest that
 it be dropped and we move back to determining what *exactly* is the issue
 being discussed here and what (if anything) pidgin can do to fix it.

 I have already commented that I believe the parenting the Add Buddy (and
 friend) dialogs to the Buddy List window (in reality whichever window
 happens to have the toplevel focus, not that that can currently be any
 other window) is a mistake and is something that should be fixed and I
 fully intend to do that.

 Is there anything else at issue here?

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/7693#comment:14>
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