Opened 5 weeks ago
#19189 new bug
Modal windows should dim / gray out the background or something
| Reported by: | slema | Owned by: | axeld |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Unscheduled |
| Component: | Servers/app_server | Version: | R1/beta5 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | All |
Description
I was having this recurrent issue with Quicklaunch that the app used a modal window and blocked all clicks and typing and with a large screen it was easy to just not understand for a moment what was happening. In the end it's just one of the many windows on screen and for some reason the rest seemingly stops responding until you realize why.
That's the ticket where we discussed it: https://github.com/humdingerb/quicklaunch/issues/44
Maybe it would be a good idea for Haiku to (optionally?) modify the full contents of the screen when a modal window appears so that the currently focused modal window becomes more visible.
I remember BeOS R5 when it had no drivers displayed everything as 16 color grayscale and it was quite elegant. It could be nice to have the active modal window with it's visible yellow tab while the rest behind becomes all gray.
Without video acceleration applying filters this might require more processing ,so maybe overlaying a 20% opacity black window on top of everything below the modal window would be a simpler choice.
