613876 - New Tab-Modal alert dialog boxes no-longer respects OS "Mouse Properties" setting feature "Snap To" when enabled

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[rob64rock]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101121 Firefox/4.0b8pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101121 Firefox/4.0b8pre

When new Tab-Modal feature is enabled, about:config setting: "prompts.tab_modal.enabled;true"
It no longer respects OS "Mouse Properties" setting feature "Snap To" when enabled. ScreenShot here: http://i53.tinypic.com/2il22o7.png


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.enabled, about:config setting: "prompts.tab_modal.enabled;true"
2.Make any Tab-Modal dialog box appear(exp... Click Spam/Trash Folders [Empty] link when viewing your "Yahoo! Mail")
3.
Actual Results:  
The new Tab-Modal alert dialog boxes don't respect OS "Mouse Properties" setting feature "Snap To" when enabled. 

Expected Results:  
The new Tab-Modal alert dialog boxes should respect OS "Mouse Properties" setting feature "Snap To" when enabled.

Note: Disabling new Tab-Modal feature in about:config "prompts.tab_modal.enabled;false"
Allows the Tab Modal dialog boxes to respect OS "Mouse Properties" setting feature "Snap To" when enabled.

Comment 1

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

The original dialog code made use of this:

window.notifyDefaultButtonLoaded(defaultButton);

http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.2/annotate/10fd22d17902/toolkit/content/widgets/dialog.xml#l190

Originally added by Bug 76053 Windows mouse integration: no "Snap to default button in dialog boxes" r=enn+ere, sr=roc

Comment 2

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

There's some discussion about this in bug 598824.

Comment 3

[alex_mayorga]

At http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Change-mouse-settings there's this note on "Automatically move pointer to the default button in a dialog box check box":

"Not all programs support this setting. In some programs, you'll need to move the mouse pointer to the button you want to click."

As implemented right now the alerts are no longer, technically at least, dialog boxes.

If the alerts are meant to remain as they are right now on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101123 Firefox/4.0b8pre ID:20101123045657 I'd lean into WONTFIX this, but who knows Mozilla seems to be reinventing the whole UI for Firefox 4.

Comment 4

[rob64rock]

(In reply to comment #3)
> At http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Change-mouse-settings there's
> this note on "Automatically move pointer to the default button in a dialog box
> check box":
> 
> "Not all programs support this setting. In some programs, you'll need to move
> the mouse pointer to the button you want to click."
> 
> As implemented right now the alerts are no longer, technically at least, dialog
> boxes.
> 
> If the alerts are meant to remain as they are right now on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows
> NT 6.0; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101123 Firefox/4.0b8pre ID:20101123045657 I'd lean
> into WONTFIX this, but who knows Mozilla seems to be reinventing the whole UI
> for Firefox 4.

I know that not all programs respect Windows "Snap-To" feature, I'm not debating that, but this bug states that Firefox has respected that Windows Feature in the past and now it doesn't.
If someone can confirm or reproduce this bug then at least change it's status from UNCONFIRMED to NEW or to Won't Fix instead of leaving the bug HANGING.

Comment 5

[Oskar Ivanić (:icecold)]

Confirming.
So, is this going to get fixed or it's a won't fix?

Comment 6

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

I'll bump it up to NEW, CCing faaborg for input.

Is this something the UX team wants? At least for the currently focused tab? (I can't remember if unfocused tabs auto-focus on alert. If they don't, should the cursor snap-to the alert's buttons upon switching to the tab with the alert?)

Comment 7

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

We decided not to do this on the principle that these dialogs should be no more privileged than anything else a web page can do. IE, they should feel like something of the web, not of your OS.