graphical diff-tool not usable when launched through "bzr gstatus"

  status triaged
  importance low
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Jelmer Vernooij <email address hidden> - http://samba.org/~jelmer/
Jabber: <email address hidden>

Hello. I think "bzr gstatus" is good to see all uncommitted changes done, better than gcommit (which does not show unknown files, and locks the branch so you can't do gannotate).
So I humbly disagree that this should be low priority.
I hit the problem described in this bug report. Easy way to repeat:
BASE=~/tmp/gstatus_stall
rm -fr $BASE
mkdir -p $BASE
cd $BASE
bzr init this
cd this
touch foo
bzr add foo
bzr commit -m 'add'
echo mod >> foo
bzr gstatus
Then in the "bzr gstatus" window, double-click on "foo", it opens a diff window, and in that window try to click the "View" menu: like all other widgets of this window it does not respond. Even the "cross" to close the window does nothing.
The only way to close the window is to close the gstatus window.

The root cause is that gstatus uses a gtk.Dialog instead of a gtk.Window.

There may be some other UI quirks (closing one window with Ctrl-W or Ctrl-Q will quit, closing all open windows, clicking the close button in diff windows close only the diff window) but switching to a window addresses the bug so I will not address them in that fix.