Re: Why modal dialogs are not movable?

[Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org>]

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika yahoo com> wrote:
> At this point does someone mind repeating what problem Gnome's current
> modal dialog behavior was trying to address?

Clearly indicating to users whether a dialog is modal or not -
preventing interaction with other windows or not is a rather
significant difference in behavior, so not using the exact same
presentation for both cases (and letting users find out by trial and
error whether they can still interact with the parent window or not)
makes a lot of sense.

Whether particular dialogs like "Print" and "Save" should be modal is
a rather different question really ...