Floating controls in the print composer do not close (and continue to operate) when you close the composer

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Author Name: Alister Hood (@AlisterH)
Original Redmine Issue: 5118
Affected QGIS version: master

Assignee: Nathan Woodrow

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In the print composer in master, I have detached the the "Item properties" and "composition" panes, so they are now floating. When I close the print composer they remain open, and if I make changes in them, when I reopen the print layout the changes have been applied. Funky ;)

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Author Name: Nathan Woodrow (@NathanW2)

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This seems to be a bug with Qt and having more then one QMainWindow with dock widgets. I did find a bug report one day but can't seem to find it now.

I was thinking that maybe to disable floating dock widgets in the composer for now until a better fix can be found. Random floating dock widgets would be confusing to users.

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Author Name: Nathan Woodrow (@NathanW2)

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• assigned_to_id was configured as Nathan Woodrow

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Author Name: Nathan Woodrow (@NathanW2)

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Fixed in changeset "479907f90355fb4e622ca7dedcf16e547072dc74".

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• status_id was changed from Open to Closed

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Author Name: Nathan Woodrow (@NathanW2)

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Ok I have disabled the floating dock widgets for now. Doesn't give a good user experience with having a floating dock widget that doesn't close when the parent window does.