Re: Why modal dialogs are not movable?

[Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika yahoo com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika yahoo com>
> Cc: Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>; Ozan Çağlayan <ozancag gmail com>; gnome-shell-list 
> <gnome-shell-list gnome org>
> Sent: Friday, April 5, 2013 1:55 PM
> Subject: Re: Why modal dialogs are not movable?
>
> 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.

I don't see how your goal wasn't already achieved by the parent window
not taking focus if the user tries to click it or one of its widgets.

What are some examples of confusion that was caused by a modal dialog
that could move without taking the parent with it?

-Jonathan

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