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Re: [albireo-dev] GTK AWT modal dialog fixes
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Gordon Hirsch wrote:
I believe there are still problems
under KDE that I'll be debugging soon,
I know what's happening now.
Under KDE, our attempts to keep a modal AWT dialog visible are prevented
by KDE's focus stealing prevention feature. Unless the prevention level
is configured as "None", when we try to activate the AWT dialog, KDE
intervenes and re-activates the original SWT shell. Unfortunately, we
immediately try again to activate the AWT dialog, so the fight over
focus continues indefinitely.
I don't know any way around this problem other than
1) recommend that focus stealing prevention be disabled for
applications using Albireo. (It is possible to selectively disable it.)
And,
2) make it possible for client code to disable this modal dialog
activation feature in Albireo. Note that the AWT dialogs will still be
modal, but it will become possible for the disabled SWT shell to cover
(i.e. hide) them.
This sounds workable to me, but better alternatives are certainly welcome.
I'm not sure why KDE considers the AWT dialog to be stealing focus when
it is opened from the same process as the original SWT shell.
