1055158 - Pressing the home button from the home app should launch the task manager.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::System::Window Mgmt, defect, P1)

Description

[Francis Djabri [:djabber]]

Please refer to Task manager spec v0.1, page 5, at https://mozilla.box.com/s/lbw2wzw3p4jvxs24k4sg

Comment 1

[Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)]

I thought of hooking this up around https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/apps/system/js/app_window_manager.js#L512

From a code standpoint, this neednt be blocked by 1047143, but from a user experience point of view it doesnt make sense to have one without the other. Provided both block 2.1, that dependency can be removed and this can land anytime.

Comment 2

[Peter Dolanjski [:pdol]]

Sam, after discussing this with UX, given that we have the mitigation of getting to recent browsing sessions in the Rocketbar (bug 1058096), we feel it is best to wait on implementing this bug until the visual task strip changes are done. (basically they should be landed together)

There is an additional implication as well.  We're asking for some visual tweaks to the task switcher in bug 1058722.  If this bug and the visual changes do get landed, we need to also make sure that changes in bug 1058722 are applied to the new task switcher, not the old one.

Comment 3

[Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)]

Noted, I'll put this down for now and get to work on the re-styling of the cards view. Btw, bug 1058722 as I read it is not a visual tweak, it is a change to how we populate and show the task switcher. We talked about a different effort to visually highlight or distinguish browser windows from apps in the task switcher - does that have a bug yet?

Comment 4

[Peter Dolanjski [:pdol]]

(In reply to Sam Foster [:sfoster] from comment #3)
> Noted, I'll put this down for now and get to work on the re-styling of the
> cards view. Btw, bug 1058722 as I read it is not a visual tweak, it is a
> change to how we populate and show the task switcher. We talked about a
> different effort to visually highlight or distinguish browser windows from
> apps in the task switcher - does that have a bug yet?

Thanks.  I was grouping that visual distinction in that bug (to be covered by the UX spec).  Should we break it out?

Comment 5

[Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)]

(In reply to Peter Dolanjski [:pdol] from comment #4)
> (In reply to Sam Foster [:sfoster] from comment #3)
> > Noted, I'll put this down for now and get to work on the re-styling of the
> > cards view. Btw, bug 1058722 as I read it is not a visual tweak, it is a
> > change to how we populate and show the task switcher. We talked about a
> > different effort to visually highlight or distinguish browser windows from
> > apps in the task switcher - does that have a bug yet?
> 
> Thanks.  I was grouping that visual distinction in that bug (to be covered
> by the UX spec).  Should we break it out?

Yes I think so. We could in principle visually distinguish browser windows in the existing task switcher. Or we could create a filtered task switcher with no visual distinction - they are separate pieces of work that touch different files for the most part.

Comment 6

[Peter Dolanjski [:pdol]]

I think the visual distinction that Eric is thinking about is actually to distinguish the background and then just hide the app windows.  I'll see what he comes up with and then file a separate one if it can be tackled separately.

Comment 7

[Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)]

I'm not working on this right now

Comment 8

[Hermes Cheng (inactive after July 27, 2015)]

I am not sure if this user story is valid. In the latest v2.2 UX specs (https://mozilla.app.box.com/s/44utizl9oz4eupyu3fuu/1/2545278347), user needs to long press the home button even from the home app.

Comment 9

[Francis Djabri [:djabber]]

Correct, pressing the home button in the home app should take the user to the top of the home app view. This bug is outdated.