Re: [Usability] Dialogs and Maximize button

["brian muhumuza" <brian muhumuza gmail com>]

There are many types of dialogs and depending on which, resizability may be good or bad. 

I'm suggesting a new way of showing dialogs that solves these problems and another one of rude interuption.
I suggest that all dialogs are drawn within the app's window be it a
progress dialog or an infor dialog or a configuration dialog, etc.

A dialog would just slide from below the tool bar and when you are done, it slides back.

Some notable advantages are:

 - Dialogs don't just pop up in your face. 

 - Since
they always slide from the top, they are predictable i.e. they don't
just pop up at the bottom of the screen or on the left of the screen,
etc 

 - There's very little mouse movement when there's many dialogs one after another because they slide ontop of one another. 

- They can reuse the app's tool and menu bar.

The disadvantage of these dialogs is:

 - You will not see a dialog for apps/windows at the back, but then again that's the idea, right!

A mockup i've made on this is at:

http://live.gnome.org/BrianMuhumuza/GNOMEDialogsMockup

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Happy day

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Brian