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> I've read repeatedly that a dialog would provide a larger input window - but
> If anything, a dialog is going to be less wide than the current commend area
> As Liviu points out, there are issues in designing a dialog that combines what
> Sorry but this looks to me like a (poor) solution in search of a problem. > With all the drama we went through trying to keep Alt-I from being obtrusive, Nevertheless, there was a reason to do that. A solution for Alt+I with the command menu only was not found because of the 3 line restriction. For now we all arranged with the dialog restriction of the command menu but maybe some could be improved if we had more lines (even if the width would be smaller then).
> I just can't beleive folks are saying an overlayed dialog is better than the I am not advocating to implement popups *now*, I think there are more important things. On the other hand I would not damn the thinking about possible changes in this direction. But if you say that this is *definitely* out of scope and will never be implemented (I think it only makes sense if done consequently for *all* dialogs) then we don't need to talk about it anymore. ;-) Jürgen.
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Messages in this Thread
- [Discuss] Dialogs (611) - Ben Kent - May 23,2003 at 04:17 [Discuss]
- [Discuss] Dialogs (624) - Peter Shute - May 23,2003 at 08:25
- [Discuss] Dialogs (640) - Liviu - May 23,2003 at 13:11
- I agree with Liviu's thoughts on this (no msg) (606) - Michael Kahn - May 23,2003 at 13:19
- I also agree (no msg) (662) - Jim Farnsworth - May 23,2003 at 20:27
- I agree with Liviu (no msg) (657) - Colin Liebenrood - May 24,2003 at 02:37
- [Discuss] Dialogs (628) - Jim Wilson - May 24,2003 at 00:48
- [Discuss] Dialogs (618) - Juergen Hestermann - May 26,2003 at 00:41
- [Discuss] Dialogs (630) - Liviu - May 26,2003 at 09:26
- [Discuss] Dialogs (617) - David Wall - May 26,2003 at 07:13
- No vote here (650) - Kim Henkel - May 26,2003 at 10:27
- No vote here (605) - Peter Shute - May 26,2003 at 10:38
- No vote here (639) - Pat Gilbert - May 26,2003 at 11:29
- No vote here (613) - Michael Kahn - May 26,2003 at 12:10
- No vote here (597) - Juergen Hestermann - May 27,2003 at 05:10
- No vote here (601) - Walt - May 27,2003 at 12:58
- No vote here (650) - Kim Henkel - May 26,2003 at 10:27