[maemo-developers] Non modal dialog

[From: Johan Bilien]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008, Ross Burton wrote:
> > if I use a GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL it appears maximized, and I can't move
> > it neither change its size.
> 
> Oh I see, you are trying to use GtkWindows as the notes themselves.
> 
> Matchbox (the window manager) enforces normal windows to fill the screen
> (excluding panels), dialogs are centered and modal, and "popup" windows
> are ignored (technically, override redirect windows).  This means that
> they don't get decorated and can't be moved by the window manager.
> 
> The solution here is to create a top level window for you application,
> and then draw the postit notes yourself.  One way would be to create a
> widget which draws a postit note and place them inside a GtkFixed or
> GtkDrawingArea.

You might want to take a look at the hildon-home-area and
hildon-desktop-home-item widgets, which implement some GtkFixed-like
widget and adds dragging of the items and other things. Both in
libhildondesktop. They are the widgets used in the home view in Chinook
but should be reusable.

-- 
Johan Bilien
<jobi at via.ecp.fr>