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Context sensitive help shown modally #1661

Closed ahall41 closed 9 months ago

ahall41 commented 9 months ago

When selecting Help from a dialog, the Help window is shown modally, so you have to close it down, having not quite read everything, in order to change something. It should be shown non-modal (but, ideally only ever have one Help window open?).

oleg68 commented 9 months ago

It should be shown non-modal

It is not possible in linux because any modal windows cover any non-modal. See #1004

ahall41 commented 9 months ago

I think #1004 is complaining that the Help window covers the dialogue? You can now click on the dialogue window - but you can't actually change anything until you close Help. Is this a "feature" (undesirable side effect) or can it be resolved?

oleg68 commented 9 months ago

@ahall41 #1004 is complaining that the dialog window covers the help window. So the user cann't read the help.

but you can't actually change anything until you close Help. Is this a "feature" (undesirable side effect) or

It is a side effect of fixing #1004.

I agree that unability of usigng the dialog when the help window is open is not comode, but it is still better than the old behavior when the user could not read the help at all.

can it be resolved?

No, it can not, because linux does not support visibility of not modal windows while a modal window is shown.