264758 - Extension manager should retrieve icon and description from install.rdf

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Edwin Martin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

When publishing extensions with JavaScript as described here
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/extensions/web-api.html, a friendly name
and a nice icon appears.

This does not work on update.mozilla.org/extensions.

I suggest the installer uses the friendly name and icon as is described in the
install.rdf.

Advantages:
1) installing an extension is friendlier, even on update.mozilla.org
2) extension authors don't have to make their webpages more complicated than
neccesary.

(I guess the whole point of putting all this information in the install.rdf file
is to provide all this. Why isn't it used [install.rdf is parsed anyway]?).






Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 264759 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Using it in the Software Installation dialog would involve fetching the XPI
before putting up the dialog, which would be a complete pain with big XPIs and
dialup, for very little benefit when there's an existing workaround. Sounds like
a near-certain WONTFIX.

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

yep, I agree it probably will be wontfixed, but you may want to file a bug
against u.m.o (if there isn't one already).

Comment 4

[Jens Bannmann]

update.mozilla.org now uses InstallTrigger - see bug 251050. Having custom icons
was suggested there, too, but that would require authors to upload a single
image file, or the software finding and extracting the icon from the XPI, then
putting the icons somewhere on the web server. Feel free to suggest such a thing
for u.m.o, but it does not sound worth the effort.

As Phil wrote in comment 2, fetching the XPI for the dialog is simply overkill,
and is a WONTFIX.