[PatternFly] modals and wizards -- should they be movable?

[Matt Carrano]

It's an interesting question, Greg.  IMO, the reason for using a modal
dialog should be to focus the user's attention on completing the task at
hand before doing something else in the UI.  So in working from that
premise, it begs the question of why someone needs the dialog to be
movable.  If the concern is that it's covering content on the parent screen
that the user needs in completing the task, then it seems like a modal is
either the wrong solution or that information should be available from
within the dialog.

I'm also interested in what others think about this.  I wouldn't be in
favor of making PatternFly modals movable unless there is a use case
justification that we can point to.

Matt

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Greg Sheremeta <gshereme at redhat.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We recently implemented Patternfly styling on our modal dialogs, and
> instantly received a bug [1] about them no longer being draggable.
> According to a quick search, bootstrap's modals do not support dragging,
> but that functionality could be added with jquery-ui [2]. According to [3],
> it's not a great idea.
>
> oVirt is quite modal-dialog heavy, so I can see why users would want this.
> We are in the planning stages of moving away from having so many dialogs,
> so I'm not terribly worried about it. But I did think it was a good idea to
> ask the list.
>
> So, what do people think about draggable modals?
>
> Best wishes,
> Greg
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1434048
> [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27120579/jquery-
> draggable-with-bootstrap-modal-scroller-strange-behaviour
> [3] http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/81134/should-
> modal-dialogs-be-movable
>
>
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> Greg Sheremeta, MBA
> Red Hat, Inc.
> Sr. Software Engineer
> gshereme at redhat.com
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Sr. Interaction Designer
Red Hat, Inc.
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