From kde-look  Wed Sep 13 05:56:43 2000
From: Espen Sand <espen.sand () neo ! no>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 05:56:43 +0000
To: kde-look
Subject: Re: DialogBoxes (was: Cookie window popup)
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-look&m=96882460208577

At 12:30 AM 9/13/00 -0400, you wrote:
>> This isn't a fault of the modal dialog itself, but of poor design of the
>> application. If a modal dialog needs to refer to a particular part of a
>> document window (eg to report an error in Line 300), then the app should
>> either duplicate this information in the dialog, or scroll to the
>> correct line and position the dialog so it *doesn't* cover the
>> information it refers to.
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>What's a "modal dialog"?  

A dialog that blocks access to any other of a program 
while it is visible. Useful in some cases (fatal erros etc)
but can limit usability elsewhere.

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Espen Sand