On Apr 9, 2013 9:45 PM, "Sam Bull" <sam.hack...@sent.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 18:51 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > > it also makes sense from a visual perspective: a modal dialog is > > blocking the window to which it's attached, so it should be visually > > connected to the window that spawned it. > > Just been catching up with my emails, and wanted to propose an > alternative. What if we snap the modal window? > > That is, dragging the modal window moves the modal window, allowing you > to peek behind it. When you let go, it springs back to its attached > position. >
That sounds like a good solution and it is unique (not windows nor mac). +1 > I agree that both problems, needing to see behind the modal dialog to > check something and needing a visual connection are both important. I > think this solution would solve that. > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list >
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