225720 - Eye Candy - Feature Request: Flash the Scroll Lock Indicator, on new mail notification

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Steve]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

Not a bug, just an "I'd love this feature".

It would be very cool, if there was an option, to have the Scroll Lock indicator
blink, when new mail arrives... possibly faster, with volume of mail...

This is neat, since the Scroll Lock key is now redundant... and everyone already
has this external visual indicator built in. 

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. not a bug
Actual Results:  
n/a

Expected Results:  
If I have new mail waiting, I'd like to have the Scroll lock indicator blink. 
This way if my laptop is closed, I can see if I have new mail... or if my
screensaver is off, or I'm VPNing to somewhere else, etc.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> This is neat, since the Scroll Lock key is now redundant... and everyone already
> has this external visual indicator built in. 

And a lot of things already use it (eg XFree86 uses it to indicate "alternate
keyboard layout" mode when it's in it).  So if we implement this, we better not
clobber the preexisting scroll-lock state when we blink it.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Prognathous]

Tentatively confirming bug. This seems like a good idea to me. If a peer thinks
otherwise, please close this bug.

Prog.