509860 - Create space for in-product info

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Madhava Enros [:madhava]]

Attachment: sketch of "About Firefox" section and button

There's currently no space in Fennec for a set of information that lives mostly, in Firefox, in menus and dialogs.  For example:  About Firefox and product credits (both in the About Firefox dialog); Release Notes (Help > Release Notes);  and Firefox Help (Help > Firefox Help).  There's also other information in Firefox, like about:rights, that has no straightforward access-point, unless you know the URL.

Fennec is not going to have a menubar, so we have to find another way to provide access to this information.  Attached is a sketch of a way to do that, via the preferences panel.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Attachment: patch

Adds the button to the preferences pane, and has it just open the current "about:" (which is similar to what we intend the destination page to be). We'll probably actually just want to override it with our custom version, I think?

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Comment on attachment 396915 [details] [diff] [review]
patch


>+function loadAbout() {
>+  Browser.addTab("about:", true); 
>+}

Let's just inline this

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mobile-browser/rev/0b3bdd50e2ec

Going to mark this FIXED, and file a followup on getting the actual new page in there.

Comment 4

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

verified with winmo nightly 20090829.