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Re: Non-modal HelpDialog.

 

Hello again,

Am 21.09.2014 um 18:09 schrieb Adam Reichold:
> Hello Razi,
> 
> Am 20.09.2014 um 15:35 schrieb Seyyed Razi Alavizadeh:
>> Hello Adam,
>>
>>     I agree, the change sounds sensible. Can you write up the patch as I
>>     will be travelling until Sunday evening (CEST).
>>
>> I pushed the patch here [1].
> 
> I'll review and merge this when preparing 0.4.12beta1 today. (I will
> release a beta first since I am behind on translation imports and
> template updates so I want to give translators another week.)

I merged it but went a slightly different route: I made the help dialog
a top-level widget so that it does not stay on top of the main window
(at least using X11 and Xfce). Could you try this out running Windows
whether it still works acceptably?

Best regards, Adam.

>> I also try to change modality of SettingsDialog to WindowModal but it
>> seems it needs more work (I connect its finished signal to a slot, but
>> settings didn't applied correctly and etc) and adds unnecessary
>> complexity to code because of this I revert them.
> 
> I do not think that there is a compelling reason for a non-modal
> settings dialog and the associated complexity as there is for the help
> dialog.
> 
> Best regards, Adam.
> 
>> [1] https://code.launchpad.net/~srazi/qpdfview/non-modal-help-dialog
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Razi
>>
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