Let's try adding the list now. On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:36 PM, G. Michael Carter <[email protected]>wrote:
> For me moving the dialog isn't always needed. My recent case I just needed > to see under the "add entry" box of revelation so I could see how I formated > the name of the previous entires. (closing it and reopening was my > workaround) When starting Oracle Forms sometimes the certification box for > the dialog get's stuck behind the splash page. In that case there's no > workaround in Gnome 3... but I can get around it by finding a non-gnome 3 > session to acknowledge the box with. > > So if the developers have a good reason for keeping the dialog the way it > is then a fade and/or hide would be good enough to get us around these few > cases. > > Michael > > > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:34 PM, [email protected] < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:23 PM, G. Michael Carter >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Maybe a quick hot key to undock? There's already a config option for >> it, >> > can it be activated on the fly? >> >> That sounds very akward to me. If the dialog is shading some info that >> you need to see, then clearly this is wrong UI and this should be >> addressed first, instead of adding workarounds to move the dialog (in >> my opinion, of course). >> So for instance, I think the replace dialog in Gedit will go away for >> 3.2. The search dialog already went away on 3.0. It would be nice to >> see all the Use cases where you need to move the dialog to see if >> whether there is a better option for this dialog. >> Greets >> >> José >> >> > >> > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Micah Carrick <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Problem with that, for me anyway, is I often need to copy what's >> >> underneath and paste into the dialog. So I really do need to move it. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:27 AM, G. Michael Carter >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I've seen comments in this list before about the dialog box needing >> to >> >> > move >> >> > so you can see what's underneath, and people pointing to setting to >> >> > undock >> >> > it. Seems pointless to keep turning it on/off for one or two >> windows. >> >> > Then I had a thought. How about have a way to fade it to see >> >> > what's underneath? Have it hooked to a hot key or some type of mouse >> >> > gesture? >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> > gnome-shell-list mailing list >> >> > [email protected] >> >> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > gnome-shell-list mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list >> > >> > >> > > >
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