196815 - phoenix should set 'phoenix' WM_CLASS class/instance hints (instead of Mozilla.navigator:browser)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 29856

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Dan Price]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030307 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030307 Phoenix/0.5


Some window managers (like WindowMaker) allow you to control window manager
behavior based on the WM_CLASS window hint.

Phoenix seems to simply inherit the useful hints which mozilla provides.
However, as a separate application, it should provide a unique hint.

See screenshot for an example.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Dan Price]

Attachment: screenshot of windowmaker window inspector

Comment 2

[Dan Price]

Also note: it seems like dialogs such as 'Options' and the initial profile
picker show up as 'Phoenix-bin', which is fine.

The bookmarks window shows up as "Mozilla.bookmarks:manager",
source code display as "Mozilla.navigator:view-source" and javascript
console as "Mozilla.global:console".

Comment 3

[Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe]

Hardware: All
OS: All

no privileges to change those or to confirm the bug :(

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030422 Firebird™
Browser/0.6

Comment 4

[Erik]

Can reproduce this using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030504 Mozilla Firebird/0.6 together using "Windows Inspector"

=> Hardware & OS = All

Nevertheless there is no loss of function nor do we need a workaround for this,
hence reducing severity & confirming to let the developers decide whether this
one will get fixed or not...

Comment 5

[Alexey Spiridonov]

Since people are expected to transition from SeaMonkey to Firebird/Thunderbird,
keeping the old WM_CLASS hints would be a good thing. It means that I don't have
to change my window manager set up to manage those windows appropriately. After
all, a mail window is still a window (and in my case, goes on the "Mail"
workspace). It also isn't as though "Mozilla.navigator:browser" doesn't apply to
Firebird: it's still a Mozilla browser, and it's official name will be
"Navigator" in 1.5.

The far more substantial WM_CLASS related bug is 29856. It stems from
incorrectly using an XLib call, when a GTK call is required (applies primarily
to GTK2 now). It amazes me that the very simple fix has not been checked in yet.
Is there anything I (or someone else, for that matter) can do to accelerate the
process? 

Comment 6

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 29856 ***