date & time dialog not modal, can't be closed in some cases

[Kyle Nitzsche]

Date and time launched from the marquee should be a modal dialog.

If not, then the user can find themselves in a case where they cannot easily close date and time.

This occurs in the acton project because the marquee only displays when the home flash plugin does not have focus and because you close the date and time dialog from the marquee, as follows:

 * user launches an app, marquee displays
 * user clicks date and time on marquee, it launches
 * Since date and time is not modal, user clicks the marquee close application button
 * Focus returns to home flash plugin, marquee disappears, but the date and time dialog remains displayed, but with no way to close it

Possible fixes include:
 * make date and time modal
 * add a close button to date and time

[cathyli (cathy-li)]

The issue only happened on Ubuntu Hardy, right? If so, pls. file bug against LP Ubuntu as following steps:
1. Go to https://launchpad.net/mobileprocessing/trunk
2. Click “Link to Ubuntu package” on the left sidebar
3. Link a package you want to file bug.
   The package list is under:
   https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mobile/+archive
4. Go to https://launchpad.net/mobileprocessing
5. Click button [Report a bug] and go to
   https://launchpad.net/mobileprocessing/+filebug
6. Click project link to file bug as usual
7. After file a new one, you need add tag “ume” and subscribe “ubuntu-mobile” to the bug

[ToddBrandt (todd-e-brandt)]

Switching owner to Bob since this is the marquee clock, not the moblin applet dialog.

[Tony Espy (awe)]

Changed status and importance based on yesterday's triage meeting.

[Tony Espy (awe)]

Bob, can you add an estimate for when you think this bug might be fixed?

[Horace (horace-li)]

Hi, All,

I adopted the second fix suggestion that adding a 'Close' button on date & tiem dialog, considering setting dialog to modal might have side-effect that it will then never be closed once it is open.

The patch is attach here, generated based on latest 0.22-0ubuntu1.

Thanks,
Horace

[Tony Espy (awe)]

Horace, I don't think just adding a "Close" button is the right fix. The problem with non-modal dialogs is that they can be hidden by other dialogs and/or applications ( eg. the user clicks the home button ). Once this happens, it leaves the user very confused.

After talking to Kyle, we both think it's not a bad idea to add a "Close" button, but the dialog still needs to be made "modal".

[Horace (horace-li)]

Hi, Tony,

Date & Time dialog is now set to modal, and new marquee-plugins 0.22-0ubuntu3 is put to hardy PPA.

Thanks,
Horace

[Tony Espy (awe)]

We'll pick this up next week as part of sync for our Beta2 delivery.

[Horace (horace-li)]

Following two suggestions, setting dialog modal and add a 'Close' button on the dialog as well. new changes have been put to Hardy PPA.

[cathyli (cathy-li)]

Verified in mobile-basic-flash 0.44-0ubuntu2, the issue is fixed, close it.