Broken XFCE?

[David Mohr]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Pascal Gervais <pggervais at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
> --- En date de : Mar, 18.11.08, David Mohr <squisher at xfce.org> a écrit :
>
>> De: David Mohr <squisher at xfce.org>
>> Objet: Re: Broken XFCE?
>> À: "XFCE general discussion list" <xfce at xfce.org>
>> Date: mardi 18 Novembre 2008, 11 h 43
>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:23 AM, John Coppens
>> <john at jcoppens.com> wrote:
>> > Hello people.
>> >
>> > I was following a thread on the GIMP user list.
>> It's about moving text
>> > while still editing it in GIMP. According to Sven,
>> this should be
>> > possible, and he answered me like this:
>> >
>> > ---------
>> > On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 20:35 -0200, John Coppens wrote:
>> >
>> >> So, I confirm Dotan's report. My WM is xfce
>> 4.4.2, if that influences
>> >> things. (X11 is xorg 7.4)
>> >
>> > Then your window manager is broken in a similar way.
>> >
>> >
>> > Sven
>> > ---------
>> >
>> > Though I find this a rather extreme comment, could
>> XFCE be at fault here?
>>
>> I'm not that familiar with the Gimp. Could you include
>> a bit more
>> context as to what exactly is broken in the first place?
>>
>> ~David
>
> http://www.gimpusers.com/forums/gimp-user/10797-Moving-text-while-typing-it.html

Better, but still... John and Pascal, if you have issues, please do
the necessary research, and provide a complete problem report. John,
the subject "broken xfce" is really not very informative either. You
can't expect to get much of a response that way, because we all are
busy people.

Anyways, you're lucky and because I was curious I actually read
through that thread. The relevant message would be:
http://www.gimpusers.com/mailmsg.php?1226829820.7363.2.camel%40bender

----SNIP----
On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 10:02 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2008/11/15 Sven Neumann <sven at gimp.org>:
> >> If I click the canvas on the in the text field, then I can move the
> >> text field with the arrow keys, but I still cannot drag it with the
> >> mouse.
> >
> > Why not? Works just fine here.
> >
>
> I really do not know why not. I am on a pretty stock Kubuntu 8.04 (KDE
> 3.5.10) installation, with proprietary ATI video drivers.

Then your window manager is definitely misbehaving. The text editor
dialog is transient to the image window. It is not a modal dialog. If it
was modal, that would explain the behavior you are seeing. Perhaps your
window manager implements transient dialogs as modal? I suggest that you
file a bug report against your window manager.
----SNAP----

I can confirm the problem. So if any of you care, do what's already
suggested in the email, and file a big report.

~David