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23.0.60; detached GTK+ tool bar does not return focus to its window

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From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>, 1405 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
        emacs-devel <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#1405: detached GTK+ tool bar
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:03:29 +0100

Stephen Berman skrev:
> On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:01:09 +0100 Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se> wrote:
> 
>> Chong Yidong skrev:
>>> Excerpted from bug#1405:
>>>
>>>> ...
>>>> Perhaps this is a GTK+ bug, but I'm not aware of another GTK+ app
>>>> aside from Emacs that uses a detachable tool bar to test for it.
>>> When Emacs got detachable tool bars, it was the standard for GTK
>>> applications to provide a detachable tool bar.  Nowadays, no other GTK
>>> application provides a detachable tool bar as far as I can tell.  (Maybe
>>> this feature was considered useless?)  So maybe we should turn this off.
>>>
>>> Jan, what do you think?
>> We can always make it un-detachable by default and have some frame parameter
>> to turn it on.  But since there are uses for a detachable tool bar as Stephen
>> points out, I'd rather not remove it until we really need to (i.e. when Gtk+
>> removes the API for it).
> 
> Does this mean you don't expect to come up with a fix for the "shrinking
> frame" bug?  (Unfortunately, I don't know enough to do more than ask...)


It is first on my list of bugs to fix.  Unfortunately it is a race 
condition and I haven't found a foolproof solution yet.  I have let this 
issue rest for a while, I need to find a new approach I think.

> 
>> But as for the focus bug described here, focus setting is in the
>> responsibility of the window manager.  If for instance you have click to
>> focus, the behaviour described here is expected.
>>
>> I'd rather see if the focus can be kept to the frame.  We can perhaps put some
>> hints to the window manager.  I'll look in to it.  Can the OP please tell us
>> what window manager he is using and what kind of focus model he has (click to
>> focus, focus follows mouse)?
> 
> I'm using KDE/kwin and click to focus.  But I also see the same behavior
> (i.e. focus not returning to the window/frame the tool bar was detached
> from) with a focus follows mouse policy.
> 

Thanks for the information.

	Jan D.

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