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> The thing that frustrates me most in IntelliJ is that all of the dialog windows are modal for no apparent reason. Why can't I focus the main window or at least interact with it to change tabs, select text, etc when I have dialogs open?

Funny, as soon as you said that, I nodded and I immediately thought "For example, the universal search dialog should definitely not be modal". And then you follow with...

> "Find in Path" is a particularly obnoxious example

Totally agree and I'm surprised I missed it. Modal dialogs are not user friendly (and very old school UI).