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 Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in 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 Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Opinion Bug description: Nautilus does not let click on other items (also the one on desktop) while the properties window is open. Open a nautilus window, choose an item in the list of files and do right-click, properties. While this properties window in open, I can't click on the other items, also the one on desktop. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: nautilus 1:3.26.4-0~ubuntu18.04.4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-27.28~18.04.1-generic 5.0.21 Uname: Linux 5.0.0-27-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.7 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sun Sep 15 21:17:39 2019 GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.preferences' b'default-folder-viewer' b"'list-view'" b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'890x545+428+170'" b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'maximized' b'true' b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-zoom-level' b"'small'" b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where', 'date_modified', 'date_modified_with_time', 'date_accessed', 'recency']" InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-09-07 (8 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190210) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) usr_lib_nautilus: To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1844068/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp