137781 - animated alert can hide behind autohiding taskbar

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Frank Burleigh]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.9+)
Gecko/20020416
BuildID:    2002041603

The new mail notification needs to take account of the autohide behavior of the
desktop's taskbar.  I use autohide so that my taskbar only shows when I move the
mouse to it.  When the new animated alert appears, it seems to position itself
at the system tray top.  If the taskbar is in its "hide" mode, that might be the
bottom of the screen.  So you get a new alert, move your mouse to touch the
alert, but that act unhides the taskbar, which then slides up, covering the
animated alert, so you can't interact with it.  I haven't experimented with any
non-normal placements of the taskbar (top, left, right, etc).

My environment is XP, default "scheme," taskbar at screen bottom with autohide
*on*.  I would imagine autohide is the real issue here so the version of windows
won't matter so much.  Thanks.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 107883 ***

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

wrong bug

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 133527 ***

Comment 4

[grylchan]

Frank,

Tried your test w/commercial trunk 2002041603 on NT 4.0
and XP.

This works for me. I had the auto hide of task bar, waited
for alert to appear, clicked on the link and it took 
me to the folder. My taskbar is at the bottom. The task bar did not
rise up

And I agree with you this bug is different from the other bug.

Comment 5

[Frank Burleigh]

Is the commercial build different than the "trunk" build I get each day?

I don't know what to say--my taskbar does rise when I get my mouse near the
popup on two machines.  Now, I should say that I have very poor eyesight, so it
could be you're able to use a mouse gesture that's more precise more quickly
than I can.  And, that aside, my main point is that when the task bar does rise,
it covers the popup.  Can we agress on that, anyway?  What about an alternate
way to touch the mail, like a click on the icon that then sits in the tray or
something?

For myself I don't care--the popup isn't how I access mail.  I just thought it
would be good to raise the usability question.

Comment 6

[grylchan]

commercial is the same as mozilla builds for now.

Eventually they might differ.

As for your problem when I try it, the taskbar is behind
the pop up alert. So I am still able to click on the alert
and it brings up messenger.

We also do have icon that will sit in the system tray also.
It won't appear if you click on the alert link. If you let
alert link go up/down you will then see icon (white envelope with
red flag) that tells you have mail.

I hope this helps.

Comment 7

[Frank Burleigh]

[e-mail]:

I've just installed 2002041903 (built late afternoon) and see that the popup is
now *in front* of the taskbar when it appears, so something has changed for the
better.

The icon in the taskbar is fine, but should allow you to interact with it, in
case you don't get to interact with the popup.  I'll play with this for a few
more days and comment here if I see any other case of the popup being difficult
to touch.

Thanks.

Comment 8

[grylchan]

using commercial trunk 2002-04-22-12-trunk (2002042209) on win 2k.

I was able to reproduce but after subsequent tries,unable to 
again. 

My steps:
I have autohide task bar on, taskbar set to be
2 lines in height (instead of deafult 1 line), and I move my
mouse to task bar first before clicking on the alert, 
the alert does hide behind task bar. I also had
font size set to 36 and this profile i was using was a brand
new one. But again after messing with task bar, font sizes,
I couldn't reproduce again.

Reopening in case this pops up in the future.

Comment 9

[grylchan]

reassigning to mscott.

Comment 10

[HyperHacker]

Is it feasible to just have the window update its position every 100ms or so, so if it's under the taskbar, it moves?