299821 - Starting a new download should bring Download Manager to foreground, even if already open

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Peter von der Heyden]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050703 SeaMonkey/1.0a
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050703 SeaMonkey/1.0a

If I want save a file the download-filemanager is in background!

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Peter von der Heyden]

http://bewerber.anzweb.de/firmen/index.php?bereich=verwaltung&skript=stelle_change&id=11

entities in generated Pictures a wrong.
German "Umlaute"

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

> If I want save a file the download-filemanager is in background!

Can you be a bit more specific? Do you mean that the window opens behind the
current window?

Was it already open by the time you started the download?

(comment 1 seems to now be bug 299822)

Comment 3

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008032107 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre

If the Download Manager is not yet open, when I download something it will open in foreground.

If it is already open, but in background, a new download doesn't bring it to foreground.

Changing Summary accordingly and downgrading Severity to Trivial.

Comment 4

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter "spam" on "guifeatures-nobody-20080610".

Comment 5

[VRN]

I prefer that the already-opened download manager (DLM) stay in the background as it would just be a nuisance if it were to always pop into the foreground every time I start a new download.  If I need to see the DLM window, then it is not much of a task at all to click on its pane or just go to the task bar to bring it to the desktop's foreground.  In other words, leave it like it is.  

If you want, I would suggest, instead, that you add an option that would allow people to decide whether or not it is to pop into the foreground on every single download.  However, I would suggest a better solution in that people wanting something in the foreground should use the Progress Dialog windows instead of the DLM.

Comment 6

[kcarchana77]

I am interested to work on this bug and I would I like to know more details about this bug. I would also like to know where I should get started.

Comment 7

[Philip Chee]

Hi kcarchana77! The download manager backend is currently being rewritten. We plan to adapt our front end code to work with the new backend. But until the new backend is stabilized I can't recommend working on our Download Manager because it's going to be rewritten anyway.