One concern I'd have is that some of the app's contents will be covered
by the dialogue and the user can't move it around to see what is below
it. Transparency is not a solution here as it just seems to mucky up
the contents rather than display it usefully.
Kirk
brian muhumuza wrote:
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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Brian
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