Thank you for your bug report, it's an upstream design choice to make the dialog modal, we are not going to change that in an Ubuntu specific way, you could report it as a problem upstream on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus though
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: New => Opinion -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1844068 Title: nautilus does not let click on other items (also the one on desktop) while the properties window is open To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1844068/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs