14922 - [FEATURE] must be able to install preference panes

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect, P1)

Description

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Since we can install add-on components with add-on preferences and add-on
chrome, we must be able to install a preference pane for them.

Not sure who owns the preference pane UI. The install may need to do something
special, but hopefully it's just a matter of installing extra files in a
special place as is the case with the default preference files and will be the
case with chrome-registry fragments once that feature is implemented.

Could this be handled through XUL overlays?

Comment 1

[shuang (gone)]

German?

Comment 2

[german]

this is a technical questions and should be owned by the apprunner team. From a
UI perspective it's fine that new components can  add new panes, as long is the
current structure does not break. New panes should be appended at the end of
prefs.

Comment 3

[Chris McAfee]

matt, you seem to know about this.

Comment 4

[don]

Move to M15 until we figure out what this really means ...

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

spam: in my testing realm, so reassigning qa contact to me, en masse.

Comment 6

[leger]

Bulk move of all Pref UI component bugs to new Preferences component.  Pref UI 
component will be deleted.

Comment 7

[don]

Move to M16 for now ...

Comment 8

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Moving back to M16 -- no explanation given for move to "future". CC'ing Ben 
because last I heard he was working on the pref dialog.

This feature is required if we are ever going to ship "optional" or 3rd party 
components that have preference panes. Netscape actually ships one such major 
component: Instant Messenger.  But something like Chatzilla or XMLTerm would 
also be examples.

Comment 9

[don]

*** Sigh. ***

Ben, is this actually implementable for Netscape 6?

Comment 10

[leger]

Putting on [nsbeta2-] radar. Please renominate if required for IM prefs.

Comment 11

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

dan, this was possible using dynamic overlays, and now those have gone the way 
of the dodo I'm told that this can be done using the manifest files in packages. 
talk to hyatt. 

Comment 12

[don]

Move to M20 target milestone.

Comment 13

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

I don't understand the move to M20. Either this feature works and it should be 
closed, or it doesn't and it's either nsbeta2+ or cut. If cut it should be M30 
or Future, because M20 is likely to hit before rtm.

If it works and AIM, for example, simply doesn't do it right *that* could be 
fixed later, but that should be a different more specific bug

Comment 14

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

OK, my understanding is that this "works"... I've converted mail to add itself 
to the pref tree only when it is installed. 

Comment 15

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

rubberstamp vrfy.

Comment 16

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by ffxbld-merge:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/a30efb8572bc
[fenix] For https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/14922: Add divider above address bar preferences.
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/92e8801e3001
[fenix] For https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/14922: Adjust margins for add search engine preference.
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/a8fcb730e007
[fenix] For https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/14922: Use padding instead of margin to use the full screen width for the "Add search engine" button