Overlay scrollbars allow interaction behind a modal dialog

Bug #1070055 reported by Dylan McCall
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Bug Description

This is reproducible in many applications. I will step you through reproducing it in in gedit.

First, open gedit with a document that needs a scrollbar. Now, open the About dialog. Note that it is impossible to interact with the document while the About dialog is open. Using the mouse wheel over it does nothing. However, you CAN scroll using the overlay scrollbars.

This is inconsistent, and it could lead to unexpected behaviour in certain applications: when a dialog is modal, it usually has a good reason to be, if for nothing else but to make developers' lives easier as they don't need to worry about odd corner cases. Instead, the overlay scrollbars should be disabled in this situation.

summary: - The scrollbars allow interaction behind a modal dialog
+ Overlay scrollbars allow interaction behind a modal dialog
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Buda Servantes (budaservantes) wrote :

I confirm that this bug is also present in ubuntu 15.04 vivid

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Buda Servantes (budaservantes) wrote :

With this bug more applications crash when their "Preferences" dialog is open and users use Close button (X) on the application window.

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