Close button in "About" dialog has no effect in some desktop environments

[tomsquest]

Clicking on "close" button of the "About" dialog does not close the aforementioned dialog

But, clicking on the close button of the header bar does close the dialog.

[tom-james-watson]

This is a core GTK window, not a custom thing - https://github.com/tom-james-watson/Emote/blob/master/emote/picker.py#L200:L215.

I'll need to check on gnome that it works as expected (not at home) but i think it looks like an upstream bug.

What desktop environment / version is this?

[tomsquest]

Hi,

I am using Kubuntu 20.04. Emote is from Snap, 1.2.0.

[rafaelmardojai]

This happens when the gtk-dialogs-use-header setting is set to False in some environments.

To fix this, you need to destroy the dialog on the response signal.

Something like this should work:

about_dialog.connect('response', lambda dialog, response: about_dialog.destroy())

[mdhishamsayed]

I can reproduce this issue @tom-james-watson

[Martina-Neumayer]

I can confirm this issue also on Mate and Compiz stand-alone mode as well under Arch Linux. Rmb on the about window border and choose "close" works as expected.