Re: [evolution-patches] Fix for #34747

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 13:00, Anna Marie Dirks wrote:
> 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): 

you interpreted correctly :-)

> 
> 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

yea, I'm not sure either... I will have to look into this.

Jeff

> 
> 
> 
> 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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Jeffrey Stedfast
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