[Gambas-devel] gb3, qt4 Windows

[Benoît Minisini]

> Gentlemen, and ladies if there are any reading this list,
> 
> Is there any way to get rid of the minimise button on a Window?
> 
> I am creating a modal dialog using dialog management that has
> SkipTaskbar set to true, however because the minimise button is
> displayed by default, the user can minimise the dialog box by mistake
> and never, ever get back to the dialog box because, with SkipTaskbar
> set to true, alt+tab doesn't show the minimised window. The
> consequence is that the user must terminate the application from the
> command line, which is an exceedingly ugly thing to ask a user to do.
> 
> Is there any reason that there are no individual properties to
> prohibit the display of the minimise and maximise boxes in Qt4? Is
> there any way to prevent or permit the two buttons to be shown or not
> shown on a Gambas3 window?
> 

This is the "philosophy" of the X-Window system: if a window is under the 
control of the window manager (which is a process on its own), then *he* 
decides how the window are managed. Not the application.

There is a way to ask the window manager not to use some of these buttons, but 
I'm not sure it is possible for all buttons. Moreover, the window manager may 
not follow your request.

I fully agree with this philosophy, where the final user has always the full 
control on his windows. How many times, on Windows, I hated all these windows 
you couldn't minimize in the taskbar...

So:

1) Either do not put you window under the control of the window manager 
(Border = False on Gambas). But then you won't have any window decoration at 
all.

2) Always use plain normal windows.

Why do you use a modal dialog with SkipTaskbar set? Is there any good reason 
to prevent the user from doing what he wants with that dialog?

-- 
Benoît Minisini