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

[Liz Clayton]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Matt Carrano <mcarrano at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
+1

>
> 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.
>

I guess if any of the dialogs warranted being modeless
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialog_box#Modeless> instead, then allowing
them to move would make sense. If not, then I agree that they shouldn't
need to move.

It might be helpful to have some documentation for the "modal" widget in
Patternfly, that offered some usage best practices and clarify terms
(modal, modeless, dialog, overlay...) I found this little writeup useful:
https://uxplanet.org/5-essential-ux-rules-for-dialog-design-
4de258c22116#.q1fizexrl .

Liz C.



> 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-dragg
>> able-with-bootstrap-modal-scroller-strange-behaviour
>> [3] http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/81134/should-modal
>> -dialogs-be-movable
>>
>>
>> --
>> Greg Sheremeta, MBA
>> Red Hat, Inc.
>> Sr. Software Engineer
>> gshereme at redhat.com
>>
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