1082210 - [br] Search engine setup for Firefox Mobile for Breton.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: br / Breton, defect)

Description

[Jeff Beatty [:gueroJeff]]

We want to ship Firefox Mobile with a good list of search engines for Breton. 

We're going to work towards this in three phases. First, the localization team and the l10n drivers will look at the market for the language and come up with a good set of search providers. Michel, we'll need your input on this, the guidelines for making recommendations are on <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Productization_guide>. 

For en-US, we currently use this set, to which we can fall back in the case of lacking localized alternatives:

> Google (mobile version), Yahoo, Bing, Amazon, Twitter, Wikipedia (slightly different to desktop, 32x32 icon)

We may also want to go with just a subset of the en-US engines, if that's more appropriate for the local market.

Once we decide to use a particular search engine (and we test it on a mobile device), l10n drivers will contact the owner and ask for permission, and for specifics like proper search flags. Michel, we'll likely need your help to at least get the contact information.

For search engines that we already ship with on desktop and that you would like to include in mobile as well, the permission is not needed.  Consider using a mobile version of the engine if one is available.  Also, please make yourself familiar with instructions regarding the <Description/> element at <https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Integrated_Search_Instructions>. For mobile, we'll want 64x64 size images, too.

Once we have a specification on what the search engines for Breton should look like, flod (Francesco Lodolo) and the localization team will work on an implementation on that. flod will create and attach patches for the desired changes and get them reviewed. After a successful review, flod will land them. Michel, if you're interested, you could create the patches, too. You'd ask flod for review on those before landing. 

Please don't commit any modifications in browser/searchplugins to the hg repository without a patch reviewed by flod, Stas, Axel or someone else appointed by the l10n drivers. The data here is sensitive to users and our search partners, thus the extra care here.

The Breton team and flod will be driving this bug to completion.

Comment 1

[Michel Nédélec]

We could use the default ones : Google, Yahoo, Bing, Amazon, Twitter and Wikipedia
Wikipedia is fully localized and there is a partial localized version of Google.
For the other ones, we could use the french localization.

Comment 2

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Attachment: bug1082210.patch

Michele, French actually ships eBay instead of Amazon for ecommerce.

Does that sound OK for you or do you prefer Amazon?

Comment 3

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Attachment: bug1082210v1.patch

Correct patch (forgot to add new files in the previous one).

Note: if you're OK with using eBay instead of Amazon, I'll move this to review.

Comment 4

[Michel Nédélec]

That's OK for me!

Comment 5

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Comment on attachment 8510246 [details] [diff] [review]
bug1082210v1.patch

Review of attachment 8510246 [details] [diff] [review]:
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Notes on the patch:
* uses the same value for region.properties as desktop
* eBay and Yahoo are the same as fr/mobile
* Wikipedia uses the updated structure from bug 1063193 (yay, another variation)

Comment 6

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n/mozilla-aurora/br/rev/588357aa47d9
http://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/br/rev/588357aa47d9