This seems like a good idea. Maybe there could also be some visual indication on tabs as to whether they currently have a save/open dialog to avoid hunting through all open tabs to find that one tab where you were going to save that image or whatever.
-Paul Wicks On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Viet-Trung Luu<[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > In the spirit of reducing modality, I propose that, where possible, > Open/Save (and other?) dialog boxes should be per-tab (i.e., tab-modal, > rather than window-modal). Does anyone have any UI concerns with this? > (Nudge, nudge, UI people....) > > As a proof-of-concept, an implementation for Mac is in the CL > > http://codereview.chromium.org/164547 > > (be gentle, there are some bugs to be worked out). I'm told that this > should be feasible under Linux, but perhaps isn't under Windows. If > that's the case, does anyone object to Mac and Linux Chromium having a > superior user experience to Windows? (Or, better, does anyone know how > to embed a Windows file selection dialog in a window?) > > - Trung > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
