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Bug 42230 - Prefer Find-in-Files not a modal dialog
Summary: Prefer Find-in-Files not a modal dialog
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 23109
Alias: None
Product: utilities
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Search (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: PC Other
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: issues@utilities
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Keywords: UI
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2004-04-21 07:55 UTC by Ben Hutchison
Modified: 2004-04-21 08:33 UTC (History)
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Description Ben Hutchison 2004-04-21 07:55:57 UTC 
Is there a good reason for Find in files to be 
modal? 

When the user selects Find, the dialog can pop-up 
with its title equal to the root path of the tree 
they it searches, ie immutable, and then the 
dialog need not be modal.

The advantage of this is that the user can browse 
files & cut/copy the text that they want to 
search for.

I know its a small matter, but modal dialogs are 
a very coarse grained synchronization lock on the 
IDE UI, and IMHO should be avoided when not 
strictly required.
Comment 1 Marian Petras 2004-04-21 08:33:37 UTC 
A request to make the dialog non-modal is already tracked as issue
#23109 - "Make Search Filesystems dialog non-modal".

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 23109 ***