Re: [evolution-patches] Fix for #34747

[Rodney Dawes <dobey ximian com>]

I don't disagree. I just took an existing patch and ported it to the 1.3
tree. Though, I do agree that the later solution may be best. I think
that making the dialog modal may be better for 1.4 than making large
changes in the dialog's behavior, and adding logic, for avoiding
another possible point of failure and having it be a major change that
could causes regressions. Maybe we could do something better for 1.6?

-- dobey


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): 
> 
> 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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