Rename in-line vs. rename pop-up

[Peter Penz]

On Thursday 21 January 2010 22:58:30 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On January 20, 2010, Peter Penz wrote:
> > Using the popup was intended, as I watched people (that I'd see as target
> > user group of Dolphin [1]) having problems with inline renaming:
> 
> i have a hate-love relationship with such dialogs: they have all the
>  benefits you note, but are so distracting and create window management
>  problems.

I agree...

> 
> i -really- think that an answer to this is the idea of "document modal"
> dialogs so that kwin can place such dialogs "in" the parent window. these
>  are also known as "sheets" on MacOS X.
> 
> i'll raise this issue again at the upcoming kwin sprint in february.

Thanks, this sounds good. I'd be open to adjust the Dolphin code to test the 
"sheets" and (hopefully) can provide some feedback then.