Re: Any recommend paradigm or work-flow suggestions to deal with Gnome 3 dialog behavior.

[Tim <darkxst fastmail fm>]

You can disable the modal dialogs in gsettings. That should revert things back to the old behaviour

On 17/01/12 11:35, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
> Old method of working:
>
> In Firefox, I right click on a file and choose Save As. A dialog is displayed with information in the title bar and I can move the dialog so
> that I can see what is underneath it to help me set the file name. For example, I might append version information or a date to the file name.
>
> Old method of writing code:
> The title bar in a dialog frequently contains useful information. Gnome 3 defaults to not showing the title bar for dialogs, so that
> information is no longer available. Even though I usually set the title bar text when I write code, it is no longer displayed / available.
>
> I assume that this behavior is intentional...
>
> Question: Can I configure the behavior to show me the title bar and to not lock the dialog to the parent window so that moving the dialog also
> moves the parent window?
>
> Question: When I write a cross-platform application, should I simply create a new text label to display the data that I usually display in the
> title bar (at least for the dialogs that I create)?
>