Re: Why modal dialogs are not movable?

[Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika yahoo com>]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>
> To: gnome-shell-list gnome org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Thursday, April 4, 2013 9:05 AM
> Subject: Re: Why modal dialogs are not movable?
>
> On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 15:49 +0300, Ozan Çağlayan wrote:
> >  Hmm but shouldn't that setting be in a more obvious place? 
>
> Which results in mega-panels of configuration options.
>
> This may be exposed in gnome-tweak-tool, it sounds familiar.
>
> >  OK it is a
> >  design decision but why in the first place it is by default attached?
>
> Because that was the "design decision"! :)  
>
> I can say that for most muggles it works well, it keeps the dialog
> associated with the application that owns it [which really does confuse
> lots of users].  Non-muggles aren't afraid of something like
> gnome-tweak-tool ["go here to change all the non-standard changable
> stuff"] or even gsettings.

Hi Adam,
Could you give a case where the user would be hindered from doing their
work because the modal dialog can be moved independently of the parent
window?

Thanks,
Jonathan