GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 756337
Connections Dialog: Use a Gtk.Stack instead of opening new windows
Last modified: 2015-10-10 14:05:37 UTC
When I press the "Edit Connection" button or the "New Connection" button, a new dialog appears on top of the Connections dialog. We should avoid stacking dialogs on top of each other like that.[0] It would be better to use a Gtk.Stack and transition. [0] https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/dialogs.html.en
(In reply to Bastian Ilsø from comment #0) > It would be better to use a Gtk.Stack and transition. Maybe, maybe not. It's worth a try, but I'm a bit skeptical about combining a stack and "external" list controls - IMHO a stack works very well when selecting a list element switches to a details view for that element. On the other hand having a toolbar element move away from underneath your pointer after activating it feels rather odd to me ... An alternative could be to split the window: turn the existing list into a sidebar, and move the create/edit dialog's content to the right. It's also closely related to bug 756336, to an extent that it might be better to combine the two into a "overhaul connections dialog" issue.
Sounds good, I opened a new bug 756344 with that name now. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 756344 ***