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Edward Hennessy wrote:

> Non-modal dialogs can be left open during the entire session while
> editing schematics.

ack. 
Modal dialogs are considered inferior UI style since at least the 
start of the century. Along the same lines, "apply" buttons are 
discouraged. See for example the Gnome2 Human Interface Guidelines 
(HIG). 
	https://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/stable/


> I believe the issue becomes the number of
> mon-modal dialogs open at the same time, and the inconvenience for
> the user to arrange/manage them.

That's why most drawing applications use dedicated areas rather than 
separate dialogs these days.

 
> Is there a another dialog that it could be merged into?

Yes:

* the "Single_Attribute_Editor" and the "Edit_Attributes" dialog

* the "Edit_Text_Properties", the "Edit_Line_Width&Type", the 
"Colour_Edit" and the "Edit_Fill_Type" dialog should be merged into a 
generalized properties dialog. 

* "Find Specific Text", "Show Specific Text", "Hide_Specific_Text"

While at it, the "Text_Entry" dialog should be replaced by in-place 
editing.

---<)kaimartin(>---