Most of us are pleased that dialogs like style picker finally are not modal any more, I think.

But why are we not allowed to put non modal dialogs to the background? I don't want to aim at the little red cross in the upper right corner of the multi picker, just to hit some random button underneath; I rather want to keep some specific part of that dialog in sight or just have it in reach.

The one thing I don't want to be hidden all the time is the main window.

So what's the rationale for keeping the dialogs in front of it? I don't think it's a default in any user interface library, so they must have put some work into it!

Let's not drift off into a discussion about the design of those windows here... mad