Re: [Usability] Dialogs and Maximize button

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

On 9/21/06, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek gmail com> wrote:

On 9/21/06, brian muhumuza <brian muhumuza gmail com> wrote:
> > > It forces you to halt what you were doing and attend to it.
> > > Note: It doesn't kindly ask but forcefully asks you leave what you are
> > > doing.
> >
> > But then you're talking about non-modal dialogs that aren't
> > immediately following a user action. IMO these should be avoided
> > completely.
> >
> > But are they used often?
> >
>
> I'm also talking about modal dialogs. The idea is to extend that gedit style
> dialog to modal dialogs (progress dialogs, config dialogs, etc).

But in that case the 'pop in my face' argument doesn't apply.

Not realy. This would be for consistency and less clutter (of the desktop from windows).

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Happy day

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Brian