I'm suggesting a new way of showing dialogs that solves these problems and another one of rude interuption.
I suggest that all dialogs are drawn within the app's window be it a progress dialog or an infor dialog or a configuration dialog, etc.
A dialog would just slide from below the tool bar and when you are done, it slides back.
Some notable advantages are:
- Dialogs don't just pop up in your face.
- Since they always slide from the top, they are predictable i.e. they don't just pop up at the bottom of the screen or on the left of the screen, etc
- There's very little mouse movement when there's many dialogs one after another because they slide ontop of one another.
- They can reuse the app's tool and menu bar.
The disadvantage of these dialogs is:
A mockup i've made on this is at:
http://live.gnome.org/BrianMuhumuza/GNOMEDialogsMockup
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Brian
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