189571 - Mail error messages steal focus and don't give it back

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 124192

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[René Stach]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021216
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021216

Hi,

today, my mail server is not reachable and this happens:
First I check for new mail and then I immediately open a web browser window and load any webpage. After some time an error message pops up saying "the mail server is down etc.". I click "ok" in this error message but the mail window still stays focused.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure a wrong mail server setting so that the server is not reachable
2. Check for new mail
3. Open a web browser window
4. Wait until an error message pops up
5. Click "ok" in the error message window
6. See that the mail window still stays focused



Expected Results:  
I expect that Mozilla steals the focus (error message) but then gives it back to where it was (web browser) so that I can continue browsing where I was.

It's not a bug in functionality, but I am asking for good usability here.

Comment 1

[Benedikt Kantus]

This is true for at least all Windows OSes.
I'd rather say the severity is minor, isn't it?

Confirming.

Comment 2

[René Stach]

As I said: No functionality is broken, but bad usability is buging the users as well.

If something does not wok, I know that after I tried the first time and I won't use the function anymore. If usability is broken, it costs me several seconds/mouse clicks everytime and I can't do anything about it.

Therefore, I suggest NOT to treat it as a MINOR bug. But thatis only my point of view and I am somebody who says: Functionality is 50% and usability is the other 50%.

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Rene, please don't set flags if you don't know how.

Comment 4

[Daniel Wang]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 124192 ***

Comment 5

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Acting on Duplicate resolution from comment 4:

*Removing 'Blocks: bug 140346'.