On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 02:15:39PM +0000, Ross Burton wrote: > On 11 Dec 2011, at 13:22, Olav Vitters <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 05:03:05PM +0100, Dennis Benzinger wrote: > >> I would be nice if you could detach a modal dialog from its parent. > > > > There is a gconf/dconf option for that I think. Something like "attach > > modal dialogs". The bug should be about dialogs longer than the screen > > though, not about enabling some crappy workaround. Maybe e.g. limit size > > of modal dialogs to the screen size. > > That isn't going to help when the size possible is larger than the > screen, ie evolution preferences doesn't fit in 600px.
What isn't going to help? I said the bug should be about solving it, not how. E.g. add a window manager based scroll bar or something, make the dialog smaller, just force the window smaller (hopefully toolkit manages), etc. -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
