183528 - Show an Alert option does not display an alert in Linux

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 158711

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Stefan Wrobel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021202
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021202

Running XFree 4.2.0 and Gnome 2.1.2, there is no sort of message notification
window displayed when this option is checked in preferences.  I'm not sure if
this  feature is implemented in Linux or not, but the option is there and it
does nothing, so I assumed it should work.  Additionally, there is no mention of
it in the release notes.  Could it be a problem with the particular Gnome
version that I'm running, or what could it be.  I'd really like to have some way
of being notified of new mail in Linux graphically.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open prefs
2. Go to Mail & News, Notifications prefs
3. Check "Show an Alert"
4. Wait for new mail
5. No alert is shown, as it is in Windows

Actual Results:  
No alert shown

Expected Results:  
Show an alert like the one shown in Windows

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

I never understood what that option was for either. Doesn't do a thing as far as
i can tell. Same bug was reported in bug 180305, which was resolved as dup of
bug 24594. I think that is wrong.

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

yes, shame on me for duping that incorrectly.

I'll take care of that right now.

It should actually be duped to bug 158711.  R.K.Aa, when I'm so clearly wrong,
please kick me in bugzilla ;-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 158711 ***

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

well shame on me - for not finding bug 158711 ;)

Verified dup.