Sounds good to me. Best of all worlds. :D On Wednesday, 11 May 2011, Federico Di Gregorio <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/05/11 17:38, Micah Carrick 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? > > What about: > > 1) the dialog is solid when first appears > 2) if you move the mouse over it and then out, the dialog fades enough > to let you see what's under it > 3) if you press a special key like control the dialog goes completely > transparent and let you select content under it (maybe does make > sense to show its outline > > The rationale is that (2) is a sensible behaviour useful to everybody > while (3) should be learned by the user, but then not everybody needs to > copy what's under the dialog and a power user can just learn it. > > federico > > -- > Federico Di Gregorio [email protected] > Studio Associato Di Nunzio e Di Gregorio http://dndg.it > I came like Water, and like Wind I go. -- Omar Khayam > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list >
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