Open Bug 1216439 Opened 10 years ago

Element Properties message stays open without information to what element it is related

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

SeaMonkey 2.38 Branch
Unspecified
Windows 7
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: RainerBielefeldNG, Unassigned)

Details

Test words "Schiff, bateau, barco, 希夫 Steps how to reproduce with en-US (German language pack) SeaMonkey 2.38 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 Build 20150923195647 (Classic Theme) on German WIN7 64bit: 0. In WIN Task bar count number of active SeaMonkey Windows 1. For 5 arbitrary simple words on this page including my test words from Description one by one do 'doubleclick → rigtclick → Properties ...' » For each word a Properties message will open and tell "Text Language: English", what is a little worrying, because none of my test words is English. Further tests doing step 1 on pages in other languages would show that the message shows language. of page (or may be text area). 2. Do the same for some other elements (pictures, links, ...) » also properties messages will be opened 3. In WIN Task bar count number of active SeaMonkey Windows » Number increased, properties messages are independent windows 4. Open one by one of the element properties and move them to different places on screen » finally you will have lots of info messages on screen, but for most of them it will be impossible to associate information to the question - there is no way back from inro message to page, element or whatever We should think about a solution, may be that message should be closed with next click or becomes an estra information line showing sourde for what information is or a "go back" icon what will show the element or TAB for what information has been requested or ...
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