GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 71246
Modality of assistants
Last modified: 2020-12-04 18:20:35 UTC
Currently assistants are specified as being modal. I'm not sure this is really necessary/useful. Calum?
I guess since assistants are often aimed at newbies, specifying that they're modal makes users less likely to click on another window by mistake and lose the assistant, and not know how to get it back. Other than that, I can't think of any strong reason off-hand for specifying that an assistant should be modal any more so than any other dialog. (Having said that, an assistant *should* be completely self-contained, including visual previews of any changes etc. that the assistant will make, so there shouldn't really be any situations where you need to interact with another window in the app while using the assistant).
Seems fine, leaving assistants as modal