Ok, as expected, the comment has been closed on the Gnome side so I
think that we can close this report. It’s only a minor issue and you
have provided a way to fix it for those who might be bothered by it.
Thanks for your support.
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https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/5390
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Title:
Done: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/5390
Let's see how this goes. I'd appreciate if you can give your point of
view in the link above.
** Bug watch added: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues #5390
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/5390
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Canonical and myself are not part of the GNOME design team. Although we
do sometimes deviate from upstream designs for Ubuntu, this particular
issue has never come up before that I can recall.
If you would like to make GNOME design suggestions then maybe try
opening an upstream issue:
That's right, this becomes quite visible with Extension settings as they
can be quite lengthy and the default window size it often too small. I
am not sure I agree with the design choice but I believe that this is
outside of the scope of this bug report so I'm happy for this report to
be closed
Often modal dialogs are not resizable, or default to a sane size where
the user has no desire to resize them. So most people will never notice
it.
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Thanks Daniel, this fixed the odd preference window behaviour. Glad to
see it's a feature and not a bug. I would still question why we want
this active by default though considering the lack of consistency with
other windows and Xorg.
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If you want different behaviour then you can run:
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.overrides attach-modal-dialogs false
gsettings set org.gnome.mutter attach-modal-dialogs false
and log in again.
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Yes, I updated the title as it appears that this behaviour applies to
all Preferences/Settings dialogs. This behaviour looks extremely odd and
is inconsistent with the resizing mechanism for other windows (and
inconsistent with the same windows in Xorg). If I grab the bottom
corner, I want to move
