271617 - XUL notification should not display over full-screen applications

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Alerts Service, defect)

Description

[Justin Kerk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I've noticed the "Downloads complete" message in the lower-right corner popping
up when I'm using a full-screen program like a screen saver or a game. With a
non-DirectX screensaver like Mystify Your Mind, the popup looks OK but goes up
and down very slowly. With DirectX program like MAME, the two programs seem to
compete with each other so the message keeps flickering until it goes away.
Highly annoying if I'm in the middle of a game.

Looks like bug 135563 but I don't know if Firefox's download popup uses the same
code as the suite mail notification popup.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start a download that will take a little bit to finish
2. Bring up a screensaver or full-screen game
3. Wait for download to finish
Actual Results:  
"Downloads complete" popup comes up very slowly and (if it's a DirectX
application) flickering

Expected Results:  
Popup is not displayed at all or is displayed "underneath" the full-screen
application

Normally, even "always on top" programs are underneath full-screen applications,
and this popup should be no different.

Comment 1

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

This is a bug with nsIAlertsService, not the download manager