875383 - Download notification covers up the downloads panel

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Downloads Panel, defect)

Description

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

When a download is completed, the XUL notification covers the downloads panel and you can't interact with it as long as the notification is present.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

I think this depends on bug 588314.

Comment 2

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [:mak] from comment #1)
> I think this depends on bug 588314.

How would we draw the user's attention on Linux?

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

I think we don't since the downloads button is visible in every browser window.

Comment 4

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [:mak] from comment #3)
> I think we don't since the downloads button is visible in every browser
> window.

The user could start a download and switch to another task in the meantime, the browser window could be in the background.

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

(In reply to Marco Castelluccio [:marco] from comment #4)
> The user could start a download and switch to another task in the meantime,
> the browser window could be in the background.

we support the system taskbar progress on Windows and Mac, I'm not sure there's a standard system to notify downloads progress on Linux, though. Likely not.
So that's a good question, probably we should modify bug 588314 to disable the toast only on such platforms with native progress indicators.

Comment 6

[flying sheep]

not standard across desktops, but KDE has one.

we should support that if available and fall back to just one (native!) notification on finish.

and only if neither libnotify nor a DBUS notification service is there should we fall back to XUL notifications, because those suck (no offense: they serve spectacularly as fallback, but don’t integrate at all)