Re: [Gramps-devel] narrative web dialog blocks gramps

[Eero T. <ee...@us...>]

Hi,

On Sunday 25 November 2007, Brian Matherly wrote:
> It seems logical that the current paradigm is
> desirable. Why would you want to mess with the main
> Gramps interface when you are in the middle of
> generating a report. And why would you want to be able
> to "lose" you color selector behind the other dialogs?
> Modal dialogs are modal so that they don't get lost

Modality doesn't guarantee this.  For this you need to set the dialog
trancient to to its parent.  Tranciency is a separate issue from
modality.


> and so the user can't change the state of the program
> on which they depend.
>
> I can just imagine a user clicking on the "ok" button
> on a report dialog over and over - wondering why it
> isn't generating a report. When all along, then have a
> minimized color selector that they need to close
> first.
>
> Can you explain why we would want non-modal dialogs?
>
> If there are bugs related to closing modal dialogs,
> then we should fix them.


	- Eero