Hi, >> It is even more evident for bluetooth: in a public place I may be >> contacted for many (malicious) paring requests, and I wouldn't like to >> be even more annoyed by a modal dialog I cannot dismiss. > > Interesting, I've never experienced that. But anyway I don't think > this is an example of something that we ever expected to be modal. On > the contrary, we have been moving things that aren't directly > initiated by the user into the periphery. A "request" from a third > party isn't that different from a request from an application for > attention from the user. We want to empower the user to be in control > of these types of potential distractions. These situations are > significantly different from ones where the user instructs the system > to perform a task and more information is needed. The bluetooth > pairing request is probably better handed by the Message Tray.
The bluetooth pairing dialog was on the SystemDialogs whiteboard page referenced in Giovanni's original mail. I don't know the history there, but I've removed it now with a link to this thread. --Ray _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
