Rename in-line vs. rename pop-up

[Frank Reininghaus]

Hi,

2010/1/21 Aaron J. Seigo:
> 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 -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.

Sounds like a very good idea - maybe that approach could also resolve
issues like
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212957

Best regards,
Frank