293395 - (X11 only) Class and instance should reflect window qualities

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 29856

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[bugzilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050508 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050508 Firefox/1.0.3

In Firefox 1.0, window class and instance values varied depending on the type of
window.  In 1.0.3, they are always Gecko/Firefox-bin.  Window managers, then,
can't tell the windows apart.  For instance, users might like to automatically
maximize browser windows, or attach them all to a frame, while leaving the
download manager or element properties dialogs separate.

Probably the right thing to do is to have all Firefox windows have a common
class (probably "Firefox"), then give instance names like "browser" or "downloads".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run under X11
2. Open dialog boxes.
3. Check class/instance

Actual Results:  
Got identical classes and instances for everything.

Expected Results:  
Different instances for different kinds of windows.

This is most noticable with pwm, which lets you configure the WM's handling of
different windows.

Comment 1

[Elmar Ludwig]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 29856 ***