1709035 - Hover text of remote control robot icon should explain the reason for remotecontrol

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(DevTools :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

When the browser starts under remote control, a robot icon is displayed in the URL bar. When hovering on the icon, the hover text reads: "Browser is under remote control" (searchfox)

The browser can be under remote control for three reasons:

• devtools debugger server
• RemoteAgent
• marionette

searchfox

The message should be different depending on the reason(s) which led to show the icon.

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

(In reply to Julian Descottes [:jdescottes] from comment #0)

The browser can be under remote control for three reasons:

• devtools debugger server
• RemoteAgent
• marionette

The message should be different depending on the reason(s) which led to show the icon.

That is a good idea! Maybe we can word it like: Browser is under remote control by { $component } or similar. That would reduce the l10n work and will make it flexible for possible other remote components.

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Whereby multiple components can be active at the same time. As such we would also need support for plurals.

Comment 3

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Attachment: Bug 1709035 - [remote] Show remote control component in robot icon title text

With this change, the title text of the robot icon now reads "Browser is under remote control by { $component }"
With component being one of DevTools, Marionette or RemoteAgent.

Note that if several components are listening at the same time, only the first one we checked is displayed.
Having several remote control tools running at the same time is considered as an edge case here.
The main goal of the feature is to help users identify what triggered remote control in case they are confused by the icon showing up.

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/2ccc83fedbdb
[remote] Show remote control component in robot icon title text r=Gijs,flod

Comment 5

[Natalia Csoregi [:nataliaCs]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/2ccc83fedbdb