Re: Why modal dialogs are not movable?

[Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika yahoo com>]

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

> From: Sam Bull <sam hacking sent com>
> To: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>
> Cc: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika yahoo com>; "gnome-shell-list gnome org" <gnome-shell-list gnome org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 3:38 PM
> Subject: Re: Why modal dialogs are not movable?
>
> On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 18:51 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> >  it also makes sense from a visual perspective: a modal dialog is
> >  blocking the window to which it's attached, so it should be visually
> >  connected to the window that spawned it.
>
> Just been catching up with my emails, and wanted to propose an
> alternative. What if we snap the modal window?
>
> That is, dragging the modal window moves the modal window, allowing you
> to peek behind it. When you let go, it springs back to its attached
> position.

That sounds sensible to me.  The user can already click-drag the parent
and move it if that's their intention, so that should have all the benefit of the
current behavior without any of its problems mentioned here.

-Jonathan

> I agree that both problems, needing to see behind the modal dialog to
> check something and needing a visual connection are both important. I
> think this solution would solve that