[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#12176) Display bug in WinXP client - unable to minimize

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12176 >

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Kevin Benton wrote:

> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12176 >
>
> Thank you for pointing that out to me.  BTW - in order to make FC actually
> leave full screen mode, I had to save changes, exit the client, then reopen
> the client.  That doesn't seem right to me.  It seems to me that if I tell
> the GUI to leave full screen, it should do it immediately, or at *least* let
> me know that my change will not take effect until I restart the GUI (YUCK!).

It does precisely this on Linux, but on Windows there seems to be a bug
somewhere, probably inside GTK+.

> There is also still a problem with FC loosing focus when it spawns a window
> like the city production window.

Yes, this is one reason why we are progressively moving to tabbed mode. On
window managers with click to focus (plus MS Windows), opening windows is
quite cumbersome.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa