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

[John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com>]

On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 12:34 -0600, 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.

The replace dialog in GEdit (3.0) is not modal/rendered as a sheet for
me. So at least in this example the problem is not present.

John