Re: When UI Enhancements go bad...

[Cliff Resnick <cresny gmail com>]

That fixes everything. Thanks!

-Cliff

On 02/28/2011 01:48 PM, Marcel wrote:
> 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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