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		js8 on May 24, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don’t open the details in a modal window, have it ... The worst modal window is the save dialog in Firefox. Often I need to see something in the page to put into filename, and the save dialog blocks it.

aendruk on May 24, 2023 | [–]

A few years ago GNOME started doing this all over the place. Modals are spatially coupled to the parent window so moving the modal moves the parent too. Drives me crazy that I can’t refer to the information underneath.

smeagull on May 24, 2023 | | [–]

GNOME is a lost cause. Once they started shadowing keybindings from readline they failed at UX.

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