144025 - With Focus Follows Mouse, pop-ups are hard to use

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Michael Burton]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc2)
Gecko/20020510
BuildID:    2002051006

Problem occurs with TweakUI from the windows XP powertoys package
(http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp).

When a pop-up appears (for example, when pausing the cursor over a Search Result
in the Search sidebar), they persist even when another windows is brought to the
forefront to cover the original window.  If the mouse cursor is then passed over
the pop-up, the originating window is "slammed" to the foreground.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install TweakUI and enable focus-follows mouse ("Activation follows mouse"),
but disable "Autoraise when activating"
2.Open a browser window and perform a google search using the Search sidebar.
3.Pass the cursor over one of the results and wait for a popup description of
that result to appear.
4.Move the cursor to another window, being careful not to do anything that would
make the popup disappear.  Click on that window to bring it to the foreground.
5.Verify that the popup is still visible OVER the window you just clicked on (it
should not be over that window)
6.Pass the cursor over the popup, and verify that the originating window comes
to the foreground immediately.

Actual Results:  As described in description

Expected Results:  The popup window should either disappear when the originating
window loses focus, or it should be hidden behind any other windows that are
brought to the foreground.  Passing the cursor over the popup should not
auto-raise the originating window

Comment 1

[:deanis74]

This isn't a problem with X-Mouse, it's a problem with tooltips.  If you have
X-Mouse turned off and get into the same situation, clicking on the tooltip will
sometimes bring its owner window to the foreground.  The bug is that tooltips
don't disappear all the time when the owner window loses focus.  I'm sure
there's already a bug filed on that.

Comment 2

[Jason M. Abels]

Since no updated from reporter about exact problem, marking as invalid. If this
is still a problem see comment #1 and file a new bug.