Closed Bug 141305 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

"Link properties" dialogue in composer is application modal

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
Composer
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: snickell, Assigned: cmanske)

Details

Its bad enough if it were just composer modal, but this prevents me from using any of the my Mozilla windows while its up. This is bad, because I often actually want to check out URLs while I'm creating web pages. For example, today I was creating a personal "course list" that linked to my course web sites. I couldn't remember the URL of one of them, so I went to check my bookmarks. Suprise, suprise, I couldn't operate my (already open) mozilla window.
Over to editor... As of a few days ago, we actually support window-modal windows (before they were all app-modal). So this may not be as big a deal now...
Assignee: mpt → syd
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: User Interface Design → Editor: Composer
Ever confirmed: true
QA Contact: zach → sujay
--> cmanske
Assignee: syd → cmanske
What? All of Composer's dialogs have always been "window", not "app" modal on Windows and, I thought, also for Linux. I thought it was only the Mac that suffered from app-modal dialogs? Boris: what change are you referring to? Akkana: Can you confirm this?
In a branch build from 4/16: it's app modal. In a debug build from 4/30: it's window modal. Looks to me like the dialog is window modal, and once the bug in the gtk front-end got fixed so that we allow window-modal dialogs, the link properties becomes window modal. Reporter: what build were you using, and do you see any dialog anywhere that's window modal but not app modal?
Using Mozilla 1.0rc1 There are not (thank goodness) very many modal dialogues in Mozilla,at least not that I was able to quickly find. The ones that I could find (such as "Open File") were all application modal where I would have expected window-modality. So I suspect you are right that this was a general bug in the GTK frontend.
Marking worksforme -- wasn't a problem with the composer dialog, and the backend bug is fixed now. Seems to be fixed on current branch builds too.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Verified on the 05-02 1.0.0 branch build. If anyone is still seeing this bug on a recent build, feel free to reopen this bug.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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