258180 - When using chatzilla inside a firefox tab, chatzilla wont flash the tab button

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Other Applications Graveyard :: ChatZilla, enhancement)

Description

[Robin Sonefors]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Chatzilla 0.9.64f [Mozilla rv:1.7/20040803]

When ChatZilla is started on it's own and someone types your name, then the 
chatzilla button in your taskbar will flash. When chatzilla is started as a 
firefox tab, it won't. It really should, so you know if someone is talking to 
you.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start chatzilla inside a firefox tab
2.Make someone say your nick
Actual Results:  
The tab won't flash (or blink or whatever you want to call it)

Expected Results:  
The tab should flash the way it does if chatzilla is started standalone

Comment 1

[James Ross]

ChatZilla calls window.getAttention(). It's up to that to realise it's in a tab
and... uh, no, you just can't do that.

I don't see any way the toolkit can possible flash the /tab/ in such cases... it
might be able to flash the containing window, but that's it.

Comment 2

[Oriyan Hermoni]

Chatzilla isn't supposed to run in a Firefox/Mozilla tab.
So dont excpect it to run flawlessly...
Chatzilla is supposed to run in its own window, thats how it was programmed.

Comment 3

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> ChatZilla calls window.getAttention(). It's up to that to realise it's in a tab
> and... uh, no, you just can't do that.
> 
> I don't see any way the toolkit can possible flash the /tab/ in such cases... it
> might be able to flash the containing window, but that's it.

Also given that Chatzilla was never intended for use within a Firefox or Mozilla
Tab, should this bug be marked WONTFIX? (I suppose it'd be CANTFIX if it were
present, like Silver once mentioned)