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

[Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan club fr>]

Le jeudi 12 mai 2011 à 16:21 +0200, Florian Müllner a écrit :
> If a dialog requires interaction with another window, the application
> shouldn't make it blocking.
The problem is that some dialogs don't stricly require interaction with
the main window, but you need to see the window behind. AFAICT, the file
chooser is the main offender here: you often click File->Save As, and
then realize you'd like read the title of the document, which is hidden
by the dialog.

If this use case is the only one, maybe the HIG could just say
filechooser dialogs shouldn't be modal. Currently, apps are not
consistent in that regard.


Cheers