----- Original Message -----

> From: Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org>
> To: gnome-shell-list@gnome.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Thursday, April 4, 2013 9:05 AM
> Subject: Re: Why modal dialogs are not movable?
> 
> On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 15:49 +0300, Ozan Çağlayan wrote:
>>  Hmm but shouldn't that setting be in a more obvious place? 
> 
> Which results in mega-panels of configuration options.
> 
> This may be exposed in gnome-tweak-tool, it sounds familiar.
> 
>>  OK it is a
>>  design decision but why in the first place it is by default attached?
> 
> Because that was the "design decision"! :)  
> 
> I can say that for most muggles it works well, it keeps the dialog
> associated with the application that owns it [which really does confuse
> lots of users].  Non-muggles aren't afraid of something like
> gnome-tweak-tool ["go here to change all the non-standard changable
> stuff"] or even gsettings.

Hi Adam,
Could you give a case where the user would be hindered from doing their
work because the modal dialog can be moved independently of the parent
window?

Thanks,
Jonathan

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