Re: Dialog box locked to under title bar. Can we make it fade?

["G. Michael Carter" <mikey carterfamily ca>]

Let's try adding the list now.

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:36 PM, G. Michael Carter <mikey carterfamily ca> wrote:

For me moving the dialog isn't always needed.  My recent case I just needed to see under the "add entry" box of revelation so I could see how I formated the name of the previous entires.  (closing it and reopening was my workaround)   When starting Oracle Forms sometimes the certification box for the dialog get's stuck behind the splash page.  In that case there's no workaround in Gnome 3... but I can get around it by finding a non-gnome 3 session to acknowledge the box with.

So if the developers have a good reason for keeping the dialog the way it is then a fade and/or hide would be good enough to get us around these few cases.

Michael

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:34 PM, jose aliste gmail com <jose aliste gmail com> wrote:

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:23 PM, G. Michael Carter
<mikey carterfamily ca> wrote:
> Maybe a quick hot key to undock?   There's already a config option for it,
> can it be activated on the fly?

That sounds very akward to me. If the dialog is shading some info that
you need to see, then clearly this is wrong UI and this should be
addressed first, instead of adding workarounds to move the dialog (in
my opinion, of course).
So for instance, I think the replace dialog in Gedit will go away for
3.2. The search dialog already went away on 3.0. It would be nice to
see all the Use cases where you need to move the dialog to see if
whether there is a better option for this dialog.
Greets

José

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> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Micah Carrick <micah greentackle com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Problem with that, for me anyway, is I often need to copy what's
>> underneath and paste into the dialog. So I really do need to move it.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:27 AM, G. Michael Carter
>> <mikey carterfamily ca> wrote:
>> > I've seen comments in this list before about the dialog box needing to
>> > move
>> > so you can see what's underneath, and people pointing to setting to
>> > undock
>> > it.  Seems pointless to keep turning it on/off for one or two windows.
>> > Then I had a thought.  How about have a way to fade it to see
>> > what's underneath?  Have it hooked to a hot key or some type of mouse
>> > gesture?
>> >
>> >
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