901736 - XUL alerts cover on-screen Growl notifications

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Notifications and Alerts, defect)

Description

[Trane Francks]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0 SeaMonkey/2.19 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130630004618

Steps to reproduce:

On OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard, run various applications that trigger Growl notifications. Run SeaMonkey and have XUL alerts configured to trigger on download completion or new mail arrival.


Actual results:

XUL alert displays over top of on-screen Growl notification, making it unreadable.


Expected results:

XUL alert should respect other notifications and display in a different location, e.g., underneath the existing, on-screen Growl notification.

Comment 1

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Bulk move to Toolkit::Notifications and Alerts

Filter on notifications-and-alerts-component.

Comment 2

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

WONTFIX for the following reasons
* We don't use XUL alerts on OS X 10.8+ so this is less important
* There is a simple workaround to have Growl notifications display in a different corner of the screen than the XUL ones
* It doesn't seem worth the effort to figure out whether Growl provides a way of knowing where its notifications are located and changing our layout based on that.