1111379 - Feature Proposal: Extended details for "View Message Report"

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::SMS, enhancement)

Description

[Mozilla_BEC]

Currently, the View Message Report panel shows salient details about message type, send/receive time stamps, message size, and origin information.

Related to Bug #1111377, I'd like to see this panel show more information about the content/attachments of messages.

In Bug #1111377, I go over how if FFXOS receives an MMS attachment it doesn't know what to do with, the attachment is lost to the user. The user can't see what its name is, what its extension is, what its MIME-type is, or what the size is.

For this feature proposal, I'd like to propose that the View Message Report panel have a section that lists/details all the attached files for the user. In event of a situation like the one detailed in Bug #1111377, the user could go to the View Message Report panel to see what was attached and figure out what they'd have to do with that file. For instance, if I could read that the attached file was in fact
File Name: ContactDetails.vcf
File Size: 148 B
File Type: text/vcard

I could then figure out that oh, this is a VCF that I can likely import on my computer or extract the content from manually.

Feature Proposal summary:
Show File Name, File Size, and File MIME-Type for all attached files in an MMS message to supplement Bug #1111377.

Comment 1

[Adrian Aichner [:anaran]]

Is this bug also about v2.2 nightly?

Might be useful to provide
Build identifier
and
Git Commit info
to get an idea how recent your v2.2 is.

Comment 2

[Mozilla_BEC]

OS Version:    2.2.0.0-prerelease
Build Number:    39
Build Identifier:    20141214040212
Git Commit Info:    4014-12-12 21:39:46 (e2a3e606)

Comment 3

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

Hey Jenny, what do you think of this?

Comment 4

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

(In reply to Brett Edmond Carlock from comment #2)
> Git Commit Info:    4014-12-12 21:39:46 (e2a3e606)

Do you come from the future ? ;)

Comment 5

[Stephany Wilkes]

Given the major changes in plans for 2.2 (i.e. that most of UX changes will not be included in scope) and subsequent near-tearm releases, the UX team will evaluate all feature and UI requests after v3 planning, which will have a strong impact on future versions of FXOS.

Comment 6

[Mozilla_BEC]

(In reply to Julien Wajsberg [:julienw] from comment #4)
> (In reply to Brett Edmond Carlock from comment #2)
> > Git Commit Info:    4014-12-12 21:39:46 (e2a3e606)
> 
> Do you come from the future ? ;)

No, but that is what I get for posting at like, 4am -_-

Sorry, 2014-12-12 21:39:46 (e2a3e606) was what should have been written.

Comment 7

[Jenny Lee]

I like the concept but would rather take a more direct approach to help user identify unknown files, for example, tapping on the attachment and show some sort of info dialog. This is just my initial thought, as Stephany pointed out in comment 5, all proposal will be evaluated after v3 planning. Thanks for understanding!

Comment 8

[Mozilla_BEC]

Jenny,

How would you feel about integrating the info as I stated above in the Message Info panel, but just shortcutting the user to the View Message Info+ panel when they tap on a FFXOS unknown file?

Comment 9

[Mozilla_BEC]

Julien,

I'm 99.9% sure this is the JS object I'd need to modify to add the Attachment Info class, right?
https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/apps/sms/js/information.js

Comment 10

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

Yep, this is the JS object that holds all behavior for what we call the "report" panel. You can also look the related markup in index.html -- note that it's currently modified by another contributor in bug 961572.

Comment 11

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

Mass closing of Gaia::SMS bugs. End of an era :(

Comment 12

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

Mass closing of Gaia::SMS bugs. End of an era :(