On Apr 9, 2013 9:45 PM, "Sam Bull" <sam hacking sent com> wrote:
>
> 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 like a good solution and it is unique (not windows nor mac).
+1
> 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.
>
>
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