> Does anyone know of programs that use real "group leader" windows? GTK
> programs have some "fake" group leader window, one that isn't reported
> to the window manager and therefore is considered not to exist. As you
> may remember their existence caused some grief, because group member
> windows are treated a lot like transient windows, and the most noticable
> effect was that you could not change their occupation.
> I am now revisiting (and simplifying) the code that handles group member
> windows, but since (to my knowledge) I have never seen them in real
> practice, I'm asking if anyone knows of a program with which I can test
> it.
IIRC, ExMH used it. It's a mail reader made up of mostly 1 window (split
into a list of flders, a list of articles and a display of an article), but
where new messages are edited in separate windows (and you can also display
articles in separate windows). I used it for a while because it was one of
the first mail systems that could handle MIME (and it could also easily
deal with tends/hundreds of mail folders).
The single-occupation of group member windows was not convenient, but it was
convenient to be able to iconify the main window and have all the others
iconified as well (although it was also useful to iconify each part
separately).
Stefan
