[Gramps-devel] bug hunt kwm kwin failed

[<ben...@ug...>]

Alex,

my bug hunt for the non-transient windows in the KDE window manager failed.
This was part of bug http://bugs.gramps-project.org/view.php?id=561
I will spend my time with other GRAMPS issues.

Just to archive what I did:

In the code for 2.2.4, I added the extra .show() in _init_local method of
PlaceEditor. Now, in KDE the editor is not fully transient, as it was in
version 2.2.3

Next I added comments, to try to isolate where it comes from. Commenting the
self._create_tabbed_pages() line in EditPrimary makes the PlaceEditor again
fully transient. Looking further, I isolated the problem to _EmbeddedList.py.
Commenting out self.build_columns() makes the EditPlace window transient.

Next I made a test file, where I make a dialog, add a notebook, add a tab with a
treeview, and add the analog of build_columns() method. Once I used a glade
file, once the gtk library. However, in both cases, the dialogs where fully
transient. No problems found.

I can only conclude that this must be an exotic issue due to the interaction of
objects in gramps with an error in how pygtk talks to the window manager or how
the window manager translates things.

I do believe the treeview is somewhere to blame, as in a plugin I'm making I
also had the non-transient behaviour, and it too contains a treeview. However
the plugin uses the Tools class, so isolating the bug from the plugin without
GRAMPS classes would also be difficult. I suggest us KDE users just stand on
the lookout to catch this bug should it reoccur. And the fact that on Kubuntu
6.10 the bug is less severe (transient, but minimize button is shown) than in
6.6, should give us hope.

Benny

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