add optional "close" buttons to all dialogs

[Tarquindarkling]

Windows 2000, Inkspace .40

After an export, the export bitmap dialog is still
open. I can see that the user might want to export
several times, but it seems a bit odd -- especially as
there is no "close" or "cancel" button, just "export".

Solution: either have the window close when the Export
button is pressed, or add a "Close" button next to
"Export" so the interface doesn't feel so odd.

[Buliabyak-users (buliabyak-users)]

Staying open for the dialog is not a bug, as explained here:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10291365

I'm moving your suggestion to add close button to RFEs.
Hopefully with gtkmm we will be able to add a user option to
add close buttons to all dialogs if the user prefers to have
them, or not otherwise (I for example don't like these
buttons). I'm therefore assigning this to Bryce who's
working on the gtkmm overhaul.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Thanks, yes, with the gtkmm dialog we can provide this
functionality. In fact, I had been pondering this myself, since I
like having the cancel button too on all dialogs but know that
others do not, like Bulia says.

The style being used for the new dialogs follows the Rename
Layer dialog. There is an "Action" button on the lower right,
and a cancel button next to it. A number of dialogs are
"instant apply", so having action and cancel buttons may not
make sense there, but perhaps something analogous will.

[Horkana-users (horkana-users)]

Problem allrgiht but not the correct solution.

Some dialogs are meant to be transiant and others are menat
to be Palettes which are left open.

In rare cases we might want to take the same dialog view and
embed it in both a Dialog and a Palette style container but
in most cases we really need to figure out if a dialog
should be one thing or another and make a decisions rather
than messing with an optional Close button.
it is more compicated but it is worth fixing the underlying
problem and improving the usability of inkscape rather than
working around it.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I don't plan to work on this, so am unassigning myself.

[John Smith (john-smithi)]

There is a preference to add Close buttons to dialogs "Interface->Windows->Show close button on dialogs".

[su_v (suv-lp)]

> There is a preference to add Close buttons to dialogs
> "Interface->Windows->Show close button on dialogs".

This preference exists AFAICT since before 0.45 but it never worked for the export dialog (no close button added) in stable releases. In current trunk, the 'Close' button is now added to the dialog if the preference has been changes accordingly and inkscape restarted.

-> setting milestone to 0.49.