114967 - no window present: several Apply Theme menu items don't work

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

found using 2001.12.10.08 comm bits on Mac OS 10.1.1. when there are no windows
open (but the menubar is present), aren't some of the View > Apply Theme items
still supposed to work?

1. start the app.
2. close all window so that there's only the menubar.
3. go to the View > Apply Theme menu and check to see if those items work.

results:

* Theme Preferences does work (launches prefs).

* Get New Themes fails to open a browser window (that would then go to the
appropriate theme download site).

* Class/Modern doesn't appear to work --not sure if we should allow switching
when there are no window present. if that's the case, these should be disabled
(greyed out). i tried this a couple of times --once i got a crash. another time
i didn't even get an alert dlg saying that i'd need to restart (subsequent
restart didn't exhibit a theme change).

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

patty, what occurs when you try this out on mac 9.x?

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

Attachment: crash report when attempting to switch theme

not sure if this crash is relevant here. so far only occurred once... but i
cannot seem to find an existing bug with a similar trace. any ideas?

Comment 3

[andreww]

this is not "themes" this is "skinnability"  changing component and 
reassigning to owner of that module. cc'ing hyatt and hewitt.

Comment 4

[andreww]

assigning to owner of skinabilty for triage.

Comment 5

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

-> hyatt

Comment 6

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

uh, no, you can't future this one. if we have dynamic skin switching, it has to
work all the time.

Comment 7

[Peter Trudelle]

nsbeta1- per Nav triage team, adding helpwanted keyword.

Comment 8

[Jean-Pierre Melkonian]

Same on Mac OS 9.1, Build 2002100911.
Note also that the usual alert window is not opened.


And a sugestion:
Is it possible to  open a bug that tracks all the problems when no window is
opened ? The list is very long, specially with menus that should not be enabled,
that don't works etc...

Comment 9

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

The patch in bug 25287 fixed those menuitems.