Some GNUstep observations

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi all,

having built GNUstep (latest cvs) on Solaris 10 and running apps under 
the Sun Java Desktop (replacement for GNOME) I encounter the following 
behaviour.

• After closing a modal dialog (e.g. a login panel), clicking on a menu 
entry causes the menu to be put into the background (very annoying). I 
have to doubleclick on the app icon to get it back to front. I haven't 
seen this behaviour with an older version of GNUstep on Solaris 9 under 
Window Manager (a bunch of differences that might lead to this error). 
But I would guess that a recent change to one of the GNUstep frameworks 
causes this behaviour. Does this ring any bells? Can anybody can 
confirm my observation?

• Under Window Manager the setDocumentEditied: status is visually 
presented by the broken cross. This does not work under KDE, GNOME, 
SJD,... Is it anyhow possible to get this feature into these other 
(default) UIs? GNUstep apps are basically useless without this feature 
IMHO, so Window Manager seems to be a must. However, users might 
already got used to GNOME, SJD,... or would like to stay with these 
enviroments for other reasons (looks fancier). Any chance?

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

  Andreas