[GTALUG] GNOME's "Attach Modal Dialogs"?

[Alex Kink]

macOS introduced the same change 3 years ago. It annoys the hell out of me constantly.
It used to be that the modal could be moved around but the window that spawned the modal could not be interacted with until the modal is resolved. This behaviour allowed you to see what's behind the modal and prevented "misplacing the dialog".

At least on Linux I can use a window manager that does't introduce counterproductive changes just for the sake of introducing changes.

Alex Kink (PGP Key <https://alexkink.net/public_key.asc>)
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> On Nov 26, 2023, at 01:33, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> 
> By default, when a GNOME application pops up a dialog, it gets glued to 
> (one of?) the application's window: the dialog sits in front of the 
> Window, glued in place.  If you move the dialog, the window moves with it.
> 
> I'm not sure why this is considered useful behaviour.  Perhaps because if 
> you misplace the dialog, you might not know that the application is 
> waiting for a response (I've had that happen in Windows).  But it means 
> that the dialog might hide something you need to see on the main window to 
> fill in the dialog.
> 
> At least on Fedora, you can change this behaviour using "GNOME Tweeks".
> Under Windows, set Attach Modal Dialogs to "off".
> 
> Does anyone else like this default?
> 
> <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/443>
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