140195 - [UE] Certificate manager always opens in the upper left corner of the desktop

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, enhancement)

Description

[Charles Rosendahl]

The Certificate Manager should open relative to the frame that opened it.

Click on 'Manage Certificates'

Expected:
The box to appear somewhere nearby my current window.

Actual:
Always in the upper left corner of the desktop.

Comment 1

[Charles Rosendahl]

*** Bug 140198 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Julien Pierre]

This is a more serious problem than it looks.

On operating systems like Windows and OS/2, there s a task bar that can be
configured to be on top of the screen. So the fact that this window appears on
top of the screen is a problem.

I just tried on Windows with the "start" menu on top of the screen (you can drag
it there with the left mouse button), and the certificate manager window
appeared underneath the task bar. The windows' title bar, including the close
button were hidden. This makes it very hard to close it. The only solution is to
reduce the size of the task bar or move it.

On OS/2 it wasn't as bad - the PSM window appeared on top of the system task
bar, so it could be closed.

There are many other windows that suffer from the same problem. I just opened an
OS/2-specific bug on this that lists all the windows I found with the problem.
It is bug 162029 . It should probably not be OS/2-specific since it affects
Windows even more.

Comment 3

[Dan M]

Attachment: add position persistence to these misbehaved windows

Comment 4

[Dan M]

The above patch will fix these windows. It does have a problem: window position
is persisted by the corresponding XUL file. However some XUL files do
double-duty. For example, both the Cookie and Image Manager dialogs are actually
the same XUL window. I think the user could reasonably be surprised upon
discovering that the Image dialog can't be moved away from the Cookie dialog,
and vice versa of course. Put the patch in if you think it's an improvement. You
could perhaps add a load handler script to persist separate positions for one
form of the double-duty dialogs.

Comment 5

[Remi Cohen-Scali]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030524

The certificate manager and the security device manager windows appears in the
upper left corner of the screen but also appears behind the preference dialog.
The problem is really annoying for the certificate manager as this window is
fully hidden behind the preferences dialog (it also appears in the upper left
corner).

Comment 6

[John G. Myers]

Mass reassign ssaux bugs to nobody

Comment 7

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Mass change "Future" target milestone to "--" on bugs that now are assigned to
nobody.  Those targets reflected the prioritization of past PSM management.
Many of these should be marked invalid or wontfix, I think.

Comment 8

[timeless]

CookieViewer was fixed in bug 187748 
SignonViewer was fixed in bug 65596
certManager was fixed in bug 220230
crlManager was fixed in bug 220230