Re: 4 modal dialog limit -- wm transient bug

Damon Courtney wrote:
> I've hit this same bug before and reported it. Since I didn't design
> the software, my company did, I don't have the choice of "just rewrite
> it." This is the same as the argument on the core mailing list about,
> "Who needs to nest directories that deep?? That's just stupid!
> Rewrite your program!"
>
> The argument doesn't fly there, and it doesn't fly here.

But this is not the fault of the core team. In this case you filed the
bug to the wrong people. This is Microsoft's bug. Personally I find
that if something is not supported by your OS or window manager it
means that the OS designers never anticipated them. In which case the
fact that one feels that one needs such a feature is a sign of one's
deep misunderstanding of basic concepts of the window manager. Going
against such concepts will end up confusing the user and that is indeed
a bad thing.

Note that directory nesting is also an OS/filesystem limitation. So
even if you write for Unix you have to be careful not to have deep
directories on FAT32.
Received on Sun Apr 30 02:46:09 2006