Issue 90683 - Parentless dialogs do not appear in OOo's "Window" menu
Summary: Parentless dialogs do not appear in OOo's "Window" menu
Status: ACCEPTED
Alias: None
Product: General
Classification: Code
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: DEV300m19
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
QA Contact:
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2008-06-13 07:55 UTC by kai.sommerfeld
Modified: 2013-08-07 15:31 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---

Attachments
Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this issue.
Description kai.sommerfeld 2008-06-13 07:55:38 UTC 
Extension Manager dialog does not appear in OOo's "Window" menu (list of open
OOo windows). The dialog is modeless, therefore it can easily put into
background (behind other OOo windows). In this case there is no easy way to
bring it to front again.
Comment 1 dirk.voelzke 2008-06-13 13:55:35 UTC 
Sorry, but no other modeless dialog appears in the windowlist ( see tools/xml
filter setting ). Gnome and Windows show the dialog in the task bar, you can use
tools\extension manager to brin the dialog to front again or you can use expose
on the mac to show all windows of an application ( press F10 ) or have a look at
apple/system settings/expose-dashboard.
Comment 2 kai.sommerfeld 2008-06-13 14:47:46 UTC 
dv: I consider it a bug that no modeless dialog appears in the Window menu. At
least on the Mac this seems to be usual. A took a look at "Pages", "iCal",
"Safari", "Firefox" - all show their modeless dialogs in their Window menu. I
will reopen the bug and change the subject (and owner) accordingly.
Comment 3 kai.sommerfeld 2008-06-13 14:48:46 UTC 
pl: Please take over.
Comment 4 philipp.lohmann 2008-06-18 19:11:37 UTC 
You're confusing modeless with parentless. Also the task bar on any system has
nothing whatsoever to do with our window menu, which only contains documents
that framework/sfx know about. Adjusting title accordingly. Interestingly enough
these parentless dialogs appear in the context menu of our dock icon which
already has that behavior and is more of an equivalent of a task bar. However it
would be better behaviour to have those identical of course. Our window menu
however is governed by framework and does not know anything about dialogs; only
frame windows will appear there.

pl->cd: The window menu is your's I think; however if you need assistance
gathering these dialog cases, give me a call. I think the target may be a little
optimistic, though.
Comment 5 carsten.driesner 2008-06-30 14:07:02 UTC 
cd: This looks like a enhancement to me. The window menu was designed to show
only document windows. We are not able to provide this enhancement for OOo 3.0,
therefore I set this issue to 3.1.