301209 - Firefox/Thunderbird/etc. unminimized (restored) when Windows XP theme changed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 169582

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[tonusik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Then Windows XP theme changed, Firefox goes from the task bar and sets focus on
herself (even if window was minimized)...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox
2. Minimize it to Windows TaskBar
3. Open Windows settings dialog
4. Change settings (theme)

Actual Results:  
Firefox is top window!

Expected Results:  
Firefox sits on his place: in task bar!

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

I suspect this is an issue with windows and not firefox. The theme switching has
a good habit of focusing windows that weren't previously. When I had getright
installed it used to happily focus the hidden window that is normally not visible.

Comment 2

[tonusik]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I suspect this is an issue with windows and not firefox. The theme switching has
> a good habit of focusing windows that weren't previously. When I had getright
> installed it used to happily focus the hidden window that is normally not visible.
> 
Yes.

Your issue is probably correct, but only Firefox has such behaviour. It is
possible to prevent, I think. At least, it is interesting to take a look for me.
But I understand that this is not so important problem.

Comment 3

[José Jeria]

This can be seen in all Mozilla apps, so the product/component should be changed

Comment 4

[Adam Guthrie]

I assume this happens in 1.5/latest trunk, too?

Comment 5

[José Jeria]

(In reply to comment #4)
> I assume this happens in 1.5/latest trunk, too?

Yes

Comment 6

[Graham]

This is quite annoying on a development system, where I am switching themes frequently to verify that my own application behaves properly.

I'm seeing this in the current Bon Echo nightly:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060726 BonEcho/2.0b1 ID:2006072604

This bug's summary line is a bit awkward. I suggest changing it to something like this:

When Windows XP theme is changed, Firefox window is restored from minimized state

Comment 7

[James Ross]

Confirming as I can't find a duplicate. This affects all toolkit apps, and quite probably all Gecko apps, so updating summary to make that clearer. This should probably be targeted at trunk, too, but it really applies to both trunk and branch.