376846 - Thunderbird ignores the initial window size setting in a shortcut if last state of the application's main window is maximized

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Kaz Nishimura]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ja; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: 2.0b2

Thunderbird does not look at the initial window size setting in a Windows shortcut, but instead starts with an either normal or maximized (according to the last used state) main window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a shortcut to Thunderbird.
2. Change the initial window size to minimized in the properties of the shortcut.
3. Start Thunderbird by the shortcut.
Actual Results:  
Thunderbird starts with an either normal or maximized window.

Expected Results:  
Thunderbird starts with a minimized window.

It appears that WinMain's fourth argument is not used in many Mozilla appliations, which would have the same problem.

Comment 1

[Kaz Nishimura]

Mistake.  It appears this only happens when the last state of the application's main window is maximized.

Comment 2

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

WFM per comment #1.

Comment 3

[Kaz Nishimura]

It appears this problem only happens when Thunderbird's window was maximized at the last exit.  Then Thunderbird start with its window maximized even if the shortcut setting is minimized.

Comment 4

[Kaz Nishimura]

My Thunderbird version is 2.0.0.22.  Has it been fixed in 3.0?

Comment 5

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> My Thunderbird version is 2.0.0.22.  Has it been fixed in 3.0?

Yes it is, also happear in current beta release

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3pre) Gecko/20090730 Lightning/1.0pre Shredder/3.0b4pre ID:20090730055316

exactly as you write in comment #3.

I don't know if exist any reason that make this deliberate.

Comment 6

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

The window sizemode is persisted from the last session. I don't know about shortcut settings - but if they are disregarded i doubt it's thunderbird only.

Comment 8

[Kaz Nishimura]

I do not know where is the WinMain function in the source hierarchy, but Thunderbird probably throws away the value of the fourth argument of WinMain.  To make Thunderbird behave as requested by shorcuts, it must be passed to ShowWindow when opening initial windows.

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Does this still exist?

Comment 10

[Ryan Lee Sipes]

I'm not sure if this still exists or if my experience of this is relevant, but Thunderbird does not open in the last state (maximized) when I open it. The behavior that should happen is that it opens in the last state that it had.

Comment 11

[Ryan Lee Sipes]

Ignore my feedback, unrelated.