Marc wrote:
>
> Canasta wrote:
> >
> > Do you suppose the "Sending Mail" dialog could be made into a
> > floating utility-style window? This would eliminate its' modality
Progress windows aren't supposed to be modal anyway. Unfortunately,
progress windows are one of the things which haven't been implemented in
XP Toolkit yet, so they get kludged using modal non-minimizable dialogs.
(The same problem happens with alerts -- they get kludged using dialogs,
which is why their border is the wrong color, and why you never get a
`Mozilla requires your attention. Please bring it to the front.' message
when you should.)
Floating windows aren't implemented in XP Toolkit either, which causes
its own set of problems (such as difficulty in showing directory errors
when doing LDAP auto-completion). However, implementation of progress
windows is considerably more urgent than implementation of floating windows.
> > so
> > the user could conceivably go on using other parts of Mozilla while
> > its' sending, which they can't now.
I haven't seen any other app which shows progress of a task in a
floating window, so that would be just as weird as showing progress in a
modal dialog is. I think far better would be to disable all the controls
in the composition window except for the `Stop' button -- and for the
progress meter and status text itself, do what Marc said:
>...
> Make it in the status bar.
>...
See `Get rid of the extra "Sending Message" Window when sending
messages' <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86393>.
Anyway, this is a mail/news issue, not a Mac issue. Follow-ups set.
--
Matthew `mpt' Thomas, Mozilla UI Design component default assignee thing
<http://mozilla.org/>
