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I use Linux. It turns out that running under Linux, BottomFeeder has the same stupid progress dialog problem that afflicts VisualWorks. Once these dialogs open up, the stay on top. Seriously on top.
In this case, its the upgrade components dialog. Only took about 15 seconds of up time (some publish operations in the VisualWorks IDE can be far longer). During this time, if you try to switch to another application (say you're irc'ing on the side), the dialog will immediately leap back to the front. You won't be able to type in your other apps. So your essentially locked out of your computer.
I can't seem to find a single other application in any of my other 1561 installed debian applications that behaves this way. What a travesty that a system which claims to be the "pinnacle of xplatform" does this on a platform that has been doing multi-users and multi-applications for 30 years now. Whoever drove the VisualWorks engineering team to put this in... deserves some sort of award. Of the booby prize kind.
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