544286 - Thunderbird - Sub windows shouldn't by default pop up at 0,0

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Roland Tanglao needinfo please :rolandtanglao, :mohnkuchen, :adobo, :sinigang, :roland]

On Windows only, the following sub windows default position should be in the middle of their parent window or appear as a sheet (like Mac OS X) instead of the current default position at 0,0 i.e. the top left of the screen which is hard to move the mouse to on large screens e.g. 1600 or 1920 :
1. "Write"->Check Spelling
2. Write-> Find and Replace
3. Main Window, Select an inbox and then File->Subscribe



Reproducible: Always

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

search for duplicate next time :-)

Comment 3

[zug_treno]

(Partial) duplicate of bug 531833?

Comment 4

[Lee_Dailey]

howdy y'all,

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110812 Thunderbird/6.0, Build ID 20110812055131

this still happens with all three listed dialogs in tb6 on win7. it's rather disconcerting on a dual monitor setup. [*grin*] these windows otta remember their last-used position, or - if such is not available yet - then they otta center on either the main window or wherever the cursor is.

take care,
lee

Comment 5

[Blake Winton (:bwinton) (:☕️)]

Yep, I agree that that's where they should open.  :)

This doesn't seem like the most important thing we can fix, but I'm going to label it ux-papercut, so that I can keep track of it, and hopefully point new contributors at it.