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

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

Sounds good to me. Best of all worlds. :D

On Wednesday, 11 May 2011, Federico Di Gregorio
<federico digregorio dndg it> wrote:
> On 11/05/11 17:38, Micah Carrick 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?
>
> What about:
>
> 1) the dialog is solid when first appears
> 2) if you move the mouse over it and then out, the dialog fades enough
>    to let you see what's under it
> 3) if you press a special key like control the dialog goes completely
>    transparent and let you select content under it (maybe does make
>    sense to show its outline
>
> The rationale is that (2) is a sensible behaviour useful to everybody
> while (3) should be learned by the user, but then not everybody needs to
> copy what's under the dialog and a power user can just learn it.
>
> federico
>
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