severity 597635 normal retitle 597635 Device notifier configuration dialog should be modaless thanks Hello, On antradienis 21 Rugsėjis 2010 18:26:00 Braun Gábor wrote: > Package: plasma-widgets-workspace > Version: 4:4.4.5-3 > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks the whole system > > > 1) I right-click on the device notifier icon on the panel > and select "Beállítások" (Settings) from the menu. > 2) I select the second icon from the top in the left pane: > "Eszközműveletek" (Actions) > 3) Now in the right, I see actions like > "Megnyitás a fájlkezelővel" (open with file manager). > I select an action and click on the middle button "Szerkesztés" > (Edit) below. Yes, so a new dialog opens which is modal. By definition, a modal dialog absorbs all input from the other dialogs or GUI widgets which the same application has opened. Unfortunately, in this case, the app opening this modal dialog is a main KDE plasma shell (plasma-desktop) so the dialog blocks it, i.e. your whole desktop. > At this point, the desktop darkens and the items on the desktop > (panels, widgets on the desktop etc) become unresponsive. > No switching to minimized window, no logout, KDE menu unavailable. > Only the window manager actions remain: eg moving/resizing windows, > using the icons on windows, switching to another displayed window. Yes, the only unresponsive application is plasma-desktop. Too bad it happens to manage the whole KDE desktop. > A new dialog appears where one can edit the actions. > By closing the dialog, the desktop returns to normal color and > the widgets are responsive again. Yes, that's what happens when modal dialog is closed. The parent application starts reacting to input events as usual. > But if I minimize the dialog window, I don't see any way to return, > so I am stuck with a hardly usable desktop. It is not true. You can use Alt+Tab. Alt+Tab is served by window manager. > In my opinion, making the desktop widgets unresponsive > is a critical bug because they are essential for using the system > (starting applications, logging out, switching between applications > etc). I would like to stress one thing here -> you willingly minimized the dialog when the rest of the desktop was darkened. So you as a user did a mistake but you still have a way out of it (Alt+Tab). Therefore, this bug is by no way critical as it does not affect anywhere majority of users nor it's consequences are severe. Actually, it is a usability issue so it is merely of normal severity. Generally, I would call it minor but I agree that your arguments against modal dialogs hold in this case. Users may run into such corner cases by accident. -- Modestas Vainius <modestas@vainius.eu>
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