gpui: Add modal dialog window kind #40291
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Closes #ISSUE
A modal dialog window is a window that demands the user's immediate attention and blocks interaction with other parts of the application until it's closed.
XdgDialog
protocol, which hints to the compositor that the dialog should be modal. While compositors like GNOME and KDE block parent interaction automatically, the XDG specification does not guarantee this behavior, compositors may deliver events to the parent window unfiltered. Since the specification explicitly requires clients to implement event filtering logic themselves, this PR implements client-side blocking in GPUI to ensure consistent modal behavior across all Wayland compositors, including those like Hyprland that don't block parent interaction._NET_WM_STATE_MODAL
state.I'm unable to implement this on MacOS as I lack the experience and the hardware to test it. If anyone is interested on implementing this let me know.
ModalWindow.mp4
DialogThis.webm
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