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i often find myself changing options in the preferences (most notably defining shortcuts), which require me to close the prefs dialog to check the effect and open the prefs dialog again to change it again. key configuration in particular is tedious and not very user friendly -- havin the go through the whole open->close->test->open->... circle several times does not really improve those issues. so, please, make the prefs dialog non-modal (and most other dialogs too, there are probably _very_ few dialogs requiring being modal). -- Configuration Details -- Product: Eclipse 1.3.2.20110218-0812 (org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product) Installed Features: org.eclipse.platform 3.6.2.r362_v20110210-9gF78Gs1FrIGnHDHWkEcopoN8AmxeZflGDGKQi
I personally feel Preferences should be modal. But thats just me :-)
well, i think "modal" is way overrated and rather used in a way "if you have no idea what to do, make it modal (and disable text selection -- if the user really wants the text that bad, let him type it again!)".
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