34151 - When closing windows on quit, should close in front-to-back order

Status: NEW

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

Description

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

If you have > 1 window open, one or more of which are composer windows, then the 
window layering changes as windows are closed on quit.

For example, do the following:
1. Launch, see 1 browser window come up.
2. Choose Composer on the tasks menu, get a composer window up. Type in it (to 
make it dirty).
3. Click on the browser window to bring it to the front.
4. Quit.

Note how the composer window, which was in the back, is brought to the front, 
then the 'do you want to save dialog is shown'. This looks weird (especially when 
you have several composer windows up, and their order seems to change randomly 
(creation order??) during this time).

Windows should be closed in front-to-back order, and if a window needs to pose a 
'do you want to save' dialog, then that should be shown when it's this window's 
turn to be closed. This is the way that every other Mac app I know works.

Comment 1

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Give you a better summary.

Comment 2

[Peter Trudelle]

mass-moving all bugs to m21 that are not dogfood+ or nsbeta2+ or nsbeta2-

Comment 3

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

I'll take this, and fix it when I check in nsIWindowMeditor Z-order iteration.

Comment 4

[rubydoo123]

moving to future, just can't get to this one

Comment 5

[Brian King [:kinger]]

This applies to Windows too.

Comment 6

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

[--> All/All based on Brian's comments]

Comment 7

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Giving this back to danm.

Comment 8

[Peter Trudelle]

->future

Comment 9

[Kathleen :Brade]

*** Bug 115897 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Sitsofe Wheeler]

*** Bug 103072 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Jay Farrell]

Not that it matters much because this bug is over 2 years old, but it is
still a problem at V1.0 RC2. I'm testing OpenVMS build 20020513

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

is there a spec for how this should work on windows, and if there isn't does the order matter?

IMO it's a good thing if windows which require response are handled )and might get a reponse of cancel) before other windows are closed.
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