536037 - help>about doesn't bring dialog to the foreground

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[timeless]

1. open thunderbird
2. if you haven't set up an account (i haven't), cancel the account setup wizard
3. maximize the main window
4. help>about
5. use the task switcher to switch back to the main window
6. help>about

expected results:
about dialog should come to the front

actual results:
nothing

Note that I really managed to do something like this (probably i clicked past the about dialog which caused it to go to the background, or perhaps i used the button that took me to credits [more likely]).

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Josh, anything in Tools -> Error console ?

Comment 2

[Dan Tilley]

Same happens in Firefox

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

I should probably move this to CORE.

Comment 4

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Doubt it: far more likely that we copy-pasted something from Fx that's now broken for us both than that it's a core failure.

Comment 6

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

For Windows XP:

Confirming for TB 8.
Works in TB Trunk.
Works in FF 8.
Works in FF Nightly.

Timeless (reporter), can you test again on MAC with current versions and/or trunk?
Need to check this on MAC / Linux before closing wfm.

Comment 7

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

For as long as About is shown, we should not allow user to focus anything else within TB in the first place. So would not never be an issue if we fix bug 708543.

Comment 8

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

No response to comment 6 for MAC.
Wfm on WinXP, About window is always in foreground of TB window. Remaining problem is bug 708543, About window can lose focus and thereafter cannot be closed using keyboard only.