Re: Dialog box locked to under title bar. Can we make it fade?

["G. Michael Carter" <mikeycarter1974 gmail com>]

Sounds good to me :D. Best of all worlds.

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On 2011-05-11, at 12:04 PM, Federico Di Gregorio <federico digregorio dndg it> wrote:

> On 11/05/11 17:38, Micah Carrick wrote:
>> Problem with that, for me anyway, is I often need to copy what's
>> underneath and paste into the dialog. So I really do need to move it.
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:27 AM, G. Michael Carter
>> <mikey carterfamily ca> wrote:
>>>> I've seen comments in this list before about the dialog box needing to move
>>>> so you can see what's underneath, and people pointing to setting to undock
>>>> it.  Seems pointless to keep turning it on/off for one or two windows.
>>>> Then I had a thought.  How about have a way to fade it to see
>>>> what's underneath?  Have it hooked to a hot key or some type of mouse
>>>> gesture?
> 
> What about:
> 
> 1) the dialog is solid when first appears
> 2) if you move the mouse over it and then out, the dialog fades enough
>   to let you see what's under it
> 3) if you press a special key like control the dialog goes completely
>   transparent and let you select content under it (maybe does make
>   sense to show its outline
> 
> The rationale is that (2) is a sensible behaviour useful to everybody
> while (3) should be learned by the user, but then not everybody needs to
> copy what's under the dialog and a power user can just learn it.
> 
> federico
> 
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