Re: When UI Enhancements go bad...

[Marcel <lists nightsoul org>]

I know, I know, some of you will desperately want a GUI for that, but 
this is just to help Cliff Getting Things Done (tm) ;)

You can disable pinning of modal dialogs in gconf. Set
/desktop/gnome/shell/windows/attach_modal_dialogs to false (uncheck) and 
you should be fine. I haven't tested it myself, I just know that the 
option is there.

Marcel

Am 28.02.2011 03:54, schrieb Cliff Resnick:
> I'll submit a bug, assuming inhibiting resizing dialogs is
> unintentional. But there are other issues. For instance, with pinned
> modal dialogs you can no longer move a stacked dialog window to
> reference the one behind it. This is clearly part of the imposed
> behavior, and consequently another headache when I use Eclipse. I don't
> mean to rant about this, but it pains me that I may not use something as
> good as Gnome-Shell because design decisions start to actually get in
> the way of me getting work done!
>
> -Cliff
>
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan club fr
> <mailto:nalimilan club fr>> wrote:
>
>     On sam., 2011-02-26 at 21:11 +0100, Fabian A. Scherschel wrote:
>      > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Gendre Sebastien
>     <korbe romandie com <mailto:korbe romandie com>>
>      > wrote:
>      >
>      >
>      >         If I undestand, Eclipse use pop-up windows instead of simple
>      >         shilde windows?
>      >
>
>
>
>
>      >
>      > If it has always worked in every other DE and Gnome Shell breaks it
>      > now? To say that is the app's problem would be a bit arrogant, don't
>      > you think?
>     No, that's a fair question. The Shell radicalknowly changes the behavior
>     of dialogs, thus it may unveil small issues in apps that weren't
>     experienced with other window managers because they behave very
>     similarly in that regard. It's possible that the windows that don't work
>     with the new design should be set up differently by Eclipse. Of course,
>     it may also be a problem with the Shell, but you cannot be sure in
>     advance.
>
>     I think some of the Shell's developers are using Eclipse, so they should
>     be able to debug this problem. Else, you'll have to provide screenshots
>     and run 'xprop' on the incriminated dialogs so that they have enough
>     information. Anyway, a bug report is probably a better place for this
>     kind of thing.
>
>     Regards
>
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