534713 - create desktop shortcut on install (maemo 5)

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Madhava Enros [:madhava]]

We should create a desktop shortcut to Firefox when it is installed on maemo 5.

Comment 1

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

This is a pretty big discoverability issue, IMO, though perhaps it's usual for Maemo users to go dig out their applications from the menu? Nominating for blocking (which is irksome this close to release, I know) in hopes that there's a trivial fix, and maybe to get it in the 1.1 pipeline.

Comment 2

[Madhava Enros [:madhava]]

Sounds like there may be a trivial fix (mfinkle said in channel that you can make a shortcut from the command line).

I don't think there _is_ a usual for maemo 5 users, as new as it is.  The main list is where all installed apps go, so I don't know if it'll be a discoverability issue, but there's certainly a convenience factor.

Comment 3

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

I don't know if a real API exists to add a shortcut, but you can do it using the "gconftool-2" commandline tool.

To see a list of the current task shortcuts use:

gconftool-2 --get /apps/osso/hildon-home/task-shortcuts

To add Fennec to the list use:

gconftool-2 --set --type=list --list-type=string /apps/osso/hildon-home/task-shortcuts [<all-existing-shortcuts>,fennec.desktop]

Not sure if it will be easy to add this to the postinst, but we might be able to add it to our commandline handler and call it from postinst

Comment 4

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

From my conversation with stuart, no other application on maemo 5 does this, so not blocking 1.0/RC.

Comment 5

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

I'd go further and say we should WONTFIX this.

Comment 6

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Agreed.