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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Dialog boxes, whether modal or not interrupt the workflow, the old dialog box was a non-modal dialog box. The new one is not a dialog box at all.
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Yes, I see your point Kovid, there is an interruption of one sort or another.
As I said I am easy whatever way and of course I was selfishly
influenced by my own workflow in my frequent use of the Modify Epub plugin (one of the ones mentioned by Cybmole) which is not affected by any interruption.
For the Modify ePub plugin's action (and for Cybmole's mention of Count Pages too which I have since had a play with) I do wonder though how often it is that anyone actually clicks "No" rather than "Yes" at the completion message?
It has always seemed to me that Modify ePub (and Count Pages too) is a tool that one ran and accepted the consequences of as one cannot actually see if anything has been screwed up without actually accepting the changes and then viewing the modified book (the log does give guidance as to changes made though). If the book has been screwed up (never happened over hundreds of runs in my own experience), or if for reasons that escape me one decides while it is running that one really didn't want to run the plugin after all and so would click "No", one has the ORIGINAL_EPUB to fall back on. I think this has also been at the back of my mind in my personally liking the idea here of the mouse snappping to "OK" in a modal box as I always click "OK".
Taking the example of Count Pages, other applications such as MSWord do not expect any acceptance by the user of the count, they assume that if one asks for the page, word, etc., count then what is the harm in displaying it without asking if the user still wants it?
But as I have said, I am easy on this, no great deal and just a regurgitation of what's influenced me, as I am sure I will survive always navigating down to the bottom right corner to find "OK" and clicking it
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