[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #7479: Save dialogs not modal
- From: "bonefish" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:49:05 -0000
#7479: Save dialogs not modal
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Reporter: humdinger | Owner: axeld
Type: bug | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1/alpha3
Component: Applications/Tracker | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: invalid | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by bonefish):
Replying to [comment:3 humdinger]:
> I can see an advantage of having only the save dialog modal. Normally,
you invoke the save dialog to save the current state of the document,
implying that it cannot change until it is "save".
Unfortunately making the dialog modal prevents the user not only from
changing the document's state. Ubiquitous use of modal dialogs is
definitely one of the top items on my Windows user-unfriendliness list
(beaten by "mouse wheel affecting the focused widget", but competing with
the "scroll bar from hell"). I find myself relatively often in the
situation that I need some information from the document while playing
with a modal dialog. In the save dialog case that information is ususally
a name, date,... that shall contribute to the file name.
I don't use Icon-O-Matic, so I don't really care, but from your
description the dialog didn't seem to be the main factor leading to the
data loss. It's rather hard to protect the users from themselves (without
introducing serious annoyances) and I don't think making dialogs modal
would help a lot with that. I'd be more in favor of "allow them to mess
up, but also give them the tools to easily recover from it" (e.g. an
automatic, persistent undo/version history).
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/7479#comment:6>
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