27196 - Blank taskbar entry on Mozilla Splash screen

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect, P3)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

When you start Mozilla, the splash screen shows and a application is added to 
the task bar. But the application is empty. Please see the attached image.
Normally in Windows the application in the taskbar always contains a icon and 
the application name.
Just for your info: This is only true until either the "Select User Profile" 
dialog comes up or until the browser starts.

Expected:
When you start Mozilla, and application with icon and name appears in the 
taskbar.

Comment 1

[Henrik Gemal]

Attachment: Taskbar Mozilla when splash screen in started

Comment 2

[Sitsofe Wheeler]

I think the splash screen should not actually appear at all in the taskbar. If 
memory serves me right, IE 4 has this problem but IE 5 does not. However many 
other apps with splash screens (Word, Excel etc.) do not have a taskbar entry 
for their splash screens.

Comment 3

[Henrik Gemal]

I'm just saying that instead of a empty entry in the taskbar the entry should be 
the a icon and the text "Mozilla".

Comment 4

[David Hallowell]

The same occurs in NT, I believe that the correct behaviour (which Netscape 4.0,
MS Word and others follow) is that there's no taskbar entry for a splash screen.
A splash screen should only be on the screen for a few seconds and therefore
doesn't need to appear on the taskbar at anytime, however I don't think this is
a bug that'll bother many people and doesn't affect the performance of the
browser so I'm lowering the severity to minor.

Comment 5

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

I agree that this is annoying.

Reassigning and changing QA contact to XP Utilities, where the Splash Screen
resides (according to bug 6391).

Comment 6

[rickg]

Don -- one for you. :)

Comment 7

[Henrik Gemal]

This one seems to have been fixed with 2000022608.
Running Win98
Can other platforms verify...

Comment 8

[Henrik Gemal]

build 2000080120