Re: [evolution-patches] Fix for #34747

[Anna Marie Dirks <anna ximian com>]

Yeah, I agree that adding another modal dialog to Evolution is less than
ideal. (Ideally, we'd only use modal dialogs for operations which could
result in data loss/something equally bad if they were allowed to
interact with the rest of the program.) 

The second solution that Jeff is proposing sounds best to me (er, please
correct me if my interpretation of his idea is wrong): 

Allow one and only one "save as" dialog per attachment, and bring the
corresponding "save as" dialog to the front if the user tries to launch
another one for the same attachment.

Someone else will need to comment of feasibility, though.
cheers, Anna



On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 12:19, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> I'm not so sure we really want the filesel to be modal - I think a
> better solution might just be to be if another save dialog is open,
> bring it to the front?
> 
> hmmm, except then the user might think that dialog was for file xyz
> instead of file abc (the original filesel).
> 
> I dunno... we could probably make it so that you couldn't pop up a save
> dialog more than once for each attachment? (not sure this is doable, but
> it might be a better solution if we can?)
> 
> Anna?
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Sun, 2003-04-27 at 22:50, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > Here is a patch to make the Save As... dialog in
> > mail-display.c be modal.
> > 
> > -- dobey
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Anna Marie Dirks <anna ximian com>