Re: Minor UI freeze break for Maps

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 4:48 AM, Marcus Lundblad <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> In Maps I'd like to make a couple of last-minute changes (I think
> they're quite minor).
>
> First: we have some non-modal dialogs (the editing of object in
> OpenStreetMap, sign-up to accounts on OpenStreetMap, and exporting the
> map view as an image) which are not being placed in some awkward place,
>  like upper corner when run under Wayland. So, the change here would be
> to make these dialogs modal.
>
> Second: currenly we always focus the main search entry on start-up.
> This has the effect of always showing the on-screen keyboard on touch
> devices with no keyboard attached. The change here would change the
> behavior so that typing (excluding keyboard shortcuts, obviously) would
> focus (and forward characters) to the main search entry when no other
> text entry is "active" (this is more in-line with how other GNOME apps
> behave, I'd say).
>
> So, I'd like to ask for freeze exceptions for these changes


Not sure these qualify as UI freeze breaks, really: no screenshot would be
rendered inaccurate by these changes.
That being said, seeing the suggested code changes would help in judging
the risk.
Anyway, tentative +1 for the release team from me.