1831896 - Improve the [flatpak] and [snap] desktop entry files by using the strings in linuxDesktopEntry.ftl and the research from bug 1824327

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1901703

(Release Engineering :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Gabriel Bustamante [:gabriel]]

Modify the Snap and Flatpak repackage tasks to source their translations from browser/locales/en-US/browser/linuxDesktopEntry.ftl and implement the improvements outlined in Bug 1824327.

Comment 1

[Darkspirit]

Snap:

• appname should ideally stay "firefox" across stable/beta/nightly/esr channels of the "firefox" package, so that the short command keeps possible:
  $ snap run firefox
$ snap run firefox_userdefinedaliasforanotherinstance
  Otherwise one would have to type $ snap run firefox.firefox-nightly
  or $ snap run firefox_userdefinedaliasforanotherinstance.firefox-nightly.

• Snap doesn't support placing a gnome-search-provider.ini yet

• You could pregenerate current debian package desktop files as firefox.desktop, firefox-beta.desktop, firefox-aurora.desktop, firefox-nightly.desktop, firefox-esr.desktop

  • and then change desktop: firefox.desktop in Snapcraft.yaml branches other than stable to
    desktop: firefox-nightly.desktop
desktop: firefox-beta.desktop
desktop: firefox-esr.desktop
  • import them here and then change Icon and Exec:
    cat /usr/share/applications/firefox-nightly.desktop
    vs.
    https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/taskcluster/docker/firefox-snap/firefox.desktop
    cat /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/firefox_firefox.desktop
    https://snapcraft.io/docs/desktop-menu-support
    • Icon entry of desktop file is replaced here, for example.
    • Exec=firefox-beta/dev/nightly/esr would need to be replaced with Exec=firefox (Exec=appname)

Flatpak

• supports placing a gnome-search-provider file: bug 1805440 comment 3

• pregenerated firefox.desktop file could be copied/downloaded into the workspace as org.mozilla.firefox.desktop here:

  cat /usr/share/applications/firefox-nightly.desktop
  vs.
  https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/taskcluster/docker/firefox-flatpak/org.mozilla.firefox.desktop
  cat /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications/org.mozilla.firefox.desktop

  • Debian's Icon=firefox would need to be replaced with Icon=org.mozilla.firefox (or with org.mozilla.<MOZ_APP_REMOTINGNAME with "-" replaced with "_">. Bash example: MOZ_APP_REMOTINGNAME=firefox-nightly; echo org.mozilla.${MOZ_APP_REMOTINGNAME/-/_})
  • If Flatpaks would exist for other channels than stable, Debian's Exec=firefox-beta/aurora/nightly/esr would need to be replaced with Exec=firefox or the launch script would need to be renamed (Exec=launchscript from appdir/bin)