core/ui separation

[Lubos Lunak]

On Friday 19 May 2006 19:16, Krzysztof Lichota wrote:
> Stephan Kulow wrote:
> >> Then I suggest re-reading the Qt documentation about threads.
> >> The problem here is showing two modal dialogs from two apps into the
> >> same "server app" (uiserver), and threads don't let you do that since
> >> you can't do anything GUI-related in other threads than the main thread.
> >
> > You don't want two modal dialogs in a desktop anyway as they give very
> > bad user experience. So queing _them_ would be fine for me, but of course
> > it's unacceptable to stall progress displays while a modal dialog is
> > open.
> >
> > I see another problem with such "out of process" dialogs though and that
> > is dualhead. Everywhere where we use that, it's causing problems: e.g.
> > cookie dialogs appear on wrong desktop/screen.

 That's just a plain bug or missing functionality.

>
> Moreover, if some minimized window opens authentication dialog (or
> cookie dialog or whatever) then other windows which want to use it
> become "frozen".
> I have a lot of windows open in my session and after restart I they are
> opened again. I keep forgetting about that and when I open a new window,
> I wait and wait for authentication dialog to appear until I remind
> myself that I must have left window with dialog somewhere. Then I have
> to search for this window and close the dialog.

 And this is the same basically.

> This is very bad from usability point of view as users will think that
> it is not working (until they learn from somewhere what to do in such
> case).
>
> This problem can appear even in case of normal user experience (without
> using FISH, HTTP auth, etc.). Some FTP/WWW sites pop up authentication
> dialog if they are overloaded.
>
> 	Krzysztof Lichota

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