I generally like it, but am I seeing right that the new event window is now a modal dialog? Why?? Composing a message is a normal that you can manage with your window manager and have multiple instances of - why not the even too?

The use-case is obvious: I might be making a new copy of an event and want to go to a previous one to copy some template text from, or I want to make a bunch of similar events and it's easier to enter data in parallel than in series. Maybe I need to find information scattered in a few emails and copy it into the calendar entry.