1487435 - Text Color dialog is opened on different screen than email window in multi

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Ales Seifert]

Attachment: Screenshot_20180831_011407.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0
Build ID: 20180807170231

Steps to reproduce:

Open email editor to write new email, write some text  and select some text than click on "Choose color for text"

OS: openSUSE x64 with KDE


Actual results:

Color picker dialogue is opened on far left screen on my three monitor desktop which is not very ergonomic as I have to travel with mouse more than 12000 pixels to the left to choose the color or move the dialogue closer to the email window. When same dialog opens again it is again opened far left as it doesn't remember last position. So only option is to move the email editor window to left screen so it will be closer to the dialogue when it opens again.


Expected results:

Dialogue should open close to the selected text or close to mouse location or at least on same screen as edited email. I am not sure if it should remember the last position but if it opens where it should there is probably no need to remember the last position.

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Looks like bug 1279680.

Comment 2

[earlgrey]

AFAIK, there is no way to do that with Javascript.
I found some workaround by using relative window placement.

Comment 4

[Ales Seifert]

Still issue with TB91.
Probably it should open as a sidebar directly in the message window if modal dialog is not a solution, the content of those dialogues is not too big so it should be no big issue.

Comment 5

[Ales Seifert]

Strange is for example "Check spelling" from Options menu works as it should and opens directly above the editor window. It looks also like modal window.