1368507 - support locale switcher addons

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(WebExtensions :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy)]

Without an ability to change some prefs, addons like locale switcher are not possible as a webextension.  As well, users have no ability to easily switch locales.

Comment 1

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

I think this is something we should aim to support in-product rather than as an extension API.

Comment 2

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

We will - see bug 1325870.

But if you guys want to expose mozLocaleService.getAvailableLocales and setRequestedLocales - I'm confident that the API will stay.

Comment 3

[Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy)]

I don't see a reason for that and nobody has asked for it.

Comment 4

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

I'd be willing to add setRequestedLocales if someone presents a good use case for it. But it would need a separate permission, and I'd need to be convinced there was a good use for it after we have better built-in locale selection support.

Comment 5

[Carlos [nohamelin]]

(In reply to Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy) from comment #3)
> I don't see a reason for that and nobody has asked for it.

I created bug 1352884 asking for that a good time ago, this bug should be a dupe of that. On the other hand, I noted this bug just now...

(In reply to Kris Maglione [:kmag] from comment #4)
> I'd be willing to add setRequestedLocales if someone presents a good use
> case for it. But it would need a separate permission, and I'd need to be
> convinced there was a good use for it after we have better built-in locale
> selection support.

I guess that further points besides that I mentioned in my bug can be only discussed after seeing that built-in support, assuming it lands not to much further after the release of Fx 57 itself...