It's been rumoured that Dave Peticolas said:
>
> Linas Vepstas writes:
> >
> > here's a little buglet in the current cvs version:
> > under certain cases, the resgister doesn't scroll.
> >
> > -- open some register
> > -- click on 'create new account'
> > -- now go back to register. It will not accept any input, nor will
> > the scroll bar scroll (although it does redraw!)
> >
> > (the very old motif had a similar problem, which was fixed
> > by creating a fake event loop that was used whenever certain
> > dialogues (mostly the yes/no dialogues) had trouble. But in motif,
> > it was *only* the yes/no dialogues, and the file picker, that would
> > block out the other windows like this. Its because motif thought
> > these were 'transient' windows and its philosophy was to give
> > 'transient' windows all the focus. Dunno why its so in gtk ...
> > maybe the 'create account' dialogue has a 'transient' parent widget?)
>
> The add account dialog is modal by intention -- when it's opened, no
> other dialog, including the main window, may be used. I suppose we
> could make it modeless, but it would need refreshing since it has an
> account list in it. Also, there are some things about its internal
> implementation that would need to change. Could it wait until 1.5?
Sure, just that, as you can guess, while creating an account, I decided
I needed some vitally important piece of information from somewehere
else ...
--linas
>
> dave
>
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