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Re: About box
Igor,
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
[snip]
Harold,
In many applications, the "Exit?" box is modal and AOT, which is fine,
because it's not expected to stay on the screen for a long time. Thus, it
doesn't need a taskbar entry, IMO.
That is an alternative.
The situation is different with the About box, since it depends on the
intent of that box. If it's intended for the users to just quickly see
what the version is, it should probably also be modal and AOT with no
taskbar entry. However, if you intend people to copy information out of
this box, or open other windows while this box is visible (especially now
that there are links in it), that box should probably have a taskbar
entry. FWIW, Exceed's one is non-modal, not AOT, and has no taskbar
entry, which is rather annoying.
I think the window may get left open, especially since it will be
annoying to use the links if it is AOT. That seems to indicate that it
needs a taskbar entry to me.
One more thing that Exceed does that the Cygwin/X server doesn't is detect
when display resolution has changed, and offer to perform a server reset,
like this (also see the attached PNG file):
[snip]
IMO, this is not very useful when changing resolutions, and, despite the
warning, I've noticed no problems with always refusing the server reset,
but I suspect that with more serious changes (e.g., changes in color
depth) it may be necessary.
Actually, we do have a dialog box that indicates when you have made a
dangerous display change (such as color depth going from 32 bpp to 256
color).
The only change I would make here would be to finally support RANDR to
allow resizing the root window to match the new screen resolution.
Harold