179460 - new/edit mailing list window should not be modal

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 135126

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, defect)

Description

[Gavin Treadgold]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

In AB, when editing an exiting mailing list, or creating a new mailing list, a
modal window is created. Because the new/edit mailing list window is modal to
the AB, it is not possible to open another mailing list and copy and paste
members, or create new contacts whilst editing a mailing list.

I found 128169 which is an open bug - new/edit mailing list should be modal to
AB. This appears to be the current situation in both my machines (Win2k and
Linux i686 running 1.2b 20021016).

The ideal situation would be to create non-modal mailing list windows so that
the functionality is similar to outlook where multiple mailing list cards can be
opened and contacts edited at the same time.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open AB
2. New List
3. Attempt to create a contact whilst the edit list window is open, or open
another list to copy and paste members from

Actual Results:  
It does not work because the new list is a modal window.

Expected Results:  
The new mailing list window should not have been modal, and should have allowed
the user to open additional address cards or mailing lists so that details can
be cut and paste from other cards or lists.

Comment 1

[Ryan Means]

I would like to bump up this bug as well. The modal nature of the list makes 
it impossible to cut a list from a text document and paste it in as a mailing 
list, as was possible in Netscape 4. 

Comment 2

[Tsahi Asher]

isn't this a dup of bug 135126?

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Agreed on dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135126 ***