496114 - please make "Create filter from message" dialog _not_ modal

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[urykhy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092816 Iceweasel/3.0.5 (Debian-3.0.5-1)
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.16 (20080724)

after i open 'Filter Rules' dialog - a can't do nothing with main window. i think this is inconvenient.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click on Message->Create filter from message
2. try switch to main window

Actual Results:  
you can't activate thunderbird main window.

Expected Results:  
active thunderbird window, ability to perform any work i wish.

Comment 1

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Confirming on Linux, cc'ing UI guru Bryan.

Comment 2

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

This doesn't really make sense to me.  Does anyone know why it was made to be a modal dialog?

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Why it was originally is one of those things you may not know: see the unhelpful middle commit in http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?date=explicit&mindate=2000-04-19+01%3A12%3A00&maxdate=2000-04-19+01%3A16%3A00

Why it is _now_ is because that's the mechanism it currently uses to tell a parent Message Filters window to refresh the list of filters if you click OK in the FilterEditor.xul window - it sticks "refresh" in the args array it got from the parent, which can only wait to find that out if the dialog is modal.