Re: modal dialogs etc.

[Phillip J Shelton <shelton11 dingoblue net au>]

Is it possable to grey out the menus without greying out all the app?

Allin Cottrell wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Jody Goldberg wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 05:36:38PM -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > > In current gnumeric if you invoke anything modal, the entire program
> > > in the background gets "greyed out" until the modal task is completed.
> >
> > In my opinion this is a desirable behaviour for modal operations.
> > Admittedly it would be nice to have fewew modal operations, but for
> > those that do make sense I'd rather be honest with the user and
> > tell them that the commands on the menu are disabled, rather than
> > silectly ignoring them as MS does.
>
> I don't have anything against a bit of modality, as such.  But
> gnumeric is sort of out on a limb in dimming the whole app whenever
> the user is doing something modal.  It's not just MS that "silently
> ignores" forbidden mouse-clicks.  Cf. mozilla, abiword, etc, etc.
> IMO it's a matter of "honesty" versus what the user is likely to
> expect.  I know that newbies often have trouble with modality --
> "Why's this menu not working??" -- but I'm not sure that visually
> disabling everything is going to help much.
>
> Allin Cottrell.
>
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