Georg Baum wrote: > Helge Hafting wrote: > >> One can normally not insert a label inside ERT, as most of the toolbar >> goes gray when entering an ERT. It is possible another way though: >> >> 1. Insert a label. Type something into the label dialog, but don't >> finish it. >> 2. Press the ERT button on the toolbar while the label dialog is active. >> An ERT box appear in the main window. >> 3. Finish the label dialog. The label gets inserted in the document - >> and >> it appear inside the new ERT box. Odd. > > This is a regression. In 1.3 the label dialog is modal (qt frontend), so > you can't do what you described above. It is not modal anymore in 1.4 > (also qt frontend). Is there a reason for that?
If I may misquote our UI guru (let's call him John L.), "modal dialogs suck". Apparently. John can probably provide references to appropriately important web pages to back up my (mis)quoting. -- Angus
