[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 139796] Make Insert Special Character a Modeless Window

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139796

Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze at documentfoundation.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
                 CC|libreoffice-ux-advise at lists |heiko.tietze at documentfounda
                   |.freedesktop.org            |tion.org
           Keywords|needsUXEval                 |
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1

--- Comment #9 from Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze at documentfoundation.org> ---
(In reply to Dave from comment #7)
> I can't think of any downside to this modeless window behavior as this is
> exactly the way the Insert Cross Reference window behaves.

Good overview of pro and con is here
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/modal-nonmodal-dialog/, probably supporting
your take. Another point is technical: the dialog needs to be closed when the
app is terminated. Similar effort was made for the tip-of-the-day dialog in bug
127533. 

When you talk about special characters you need to make clear whether this is
about the floating widget or the dialog. For the first I could imagine to tweak
it so the widget can be displaced from the toolbar and stays on the UI. Like it
works for shapes.

I don't close tickets that have been reopened, removing needsUXEval keyword.

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