Closed Bug 656491 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

The About dialog in GNOME has a window type of DIALOG, which has no window controls

Categories

(Firefox :: Theme, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Theme
Version:
4.0 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 608934

People

(Reporter: jstpierre, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

The main issue here is that the About Dialog has a window type of DIALOG, which has no window controls:

http://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/3.0/windows-dialog.html.en

So, to close the dialog, the user must either close it through the window menu (right-clicking on the title-bar), or Alt+F4.

Dialogs in GNOME aren't closable because they often request a mandatory choice from the user, and closing the dialog from the window frame isn't clear which is selected.

So, you have a couple solutions:

 * Put a "Close" button in like the other gnome-about dialogs.
 * Make the dialog a regular dialog, closable with the window frame.


Reproducible: Always
Summary: About Dialog GNOME HIG Issues → The About dialog in GNOME has a window type of DIALOG, which has no window controls
Version: unspecified → 4.0 Branch
Confirmed on Ubuntu 11.04/Gnome 3
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:7.0a1) Gecko/20110527 Firefox/7.0a1
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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