21595 - Application window is minimized when at a restored state

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect, P2)

Description

[lchiang]

[Regression] Application window is minimized when at a restored state

I hope I chose the correct component; if not, pls reassign.

Win32 1999-12-10-09 commercial build

The last time you ran Seamonkey, leave your window in a restored state (instead
of maximize or minimize) prior to exiting the application.

1) Install Seamonkey
2) Start mozilla.exe
3) Notice that Seamonkey shows up in your task bar, but the application window
is no where to be seen.

If you right-click on the Seamonkey item in the task bar, you'll see that you
can select Maximize. Go ahead and do so.  The application window shows up
maximized.  You'll be able to maximize and minimize the application window.  You
just won't be able to restore it.

Marking Dogfood.  Sometimes I need to have windows side-by-side and don't like
to read in a maximized state.

Comment 1

[Eli Goldberg]

Reassigning to Don/XP Apps.

Comment 2

[leger]

Putting on PDT+ radar.

Comment 3

[lchiang]

Actually, I'm going to remove DOGFOOD. This happens only to one of my profiles.
cpratt came to see what was happening.  It's really strange.  We tried to use
the shortcut keys and it brings up the menus, but the window just won't draw.

Comment 4

[cpratt]

The problem does seem specific to this one profile on this one machine; I have
not seen it reproduce on other machines or profiles. When the Mozilla
application window is restored, it's absolutely invisible. lchiang and I were
able to bring up contextual menus and window control menus - but that was all,
and the Move and Resize commands didn't do anything that we could see. I'm
afraid we may have to chalk this one up to random badness...

Comment 5

[Jerry Baker]

Might this be related to the problem I see here? That is that Mozilla opens
maximized and there is no way to resize it. The middle button in the upper right
corner indicates Mozilla is not maximized, but toggling this button back and
forth has no effect. Not able to "grab" any side of the window to drag it
smaller either. If you minimize the taskbar, Mozilla follows. The Mozilla real
estate monster!!!

Comment 6

[Chris McAfee]

Windows help?  law.  might be toolkit

Comment 7

[don]

Somebody convince me we need to fix this for beta 1.

Comment 8

[don]

Not an M15 blocker ...

Comment 9

[don]

Move to M20 target milestone.

Comment 10

[Paul Chen]

nav triage team:

Does this still happen over one year later? Marking nsbeta1-

Comment 11

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Worksforme with 122805 mozilla build on NT.  

Comment 12

[lchiang]

This is working for me, but I've recently gotten feedback from DecisionOne
(Netscape support) that some users are seeing this. We'll need to get more info
to reproduce.

Comment 13

[Paul Chen]

Marking nsbeta1- bugs as future to get off the radar.

Comment 14

[tyl2]

I haven't heard about this problem. Should it be closed until someone reopens it?

Comment 15

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050917
SeaMonkey/1.1a