285158 - Unify shared pref files in toolkit\mozapps

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Scott MacGregor]

Now that Thunderbird uses the new Pref code as Firefox, we should move some of
the shared files (like fonts, font calibration, fieldfile, and some of the
download action code) into mozapps\preferences.

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: moving the first group of files

ocsp, master password, shared font files, shared filefield widget stuff, shared
fontscaling. This gets most of the stuff we share between firefox and
thunderbird without one of us needing to change anything.

Comment 2

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

Comment on attachment 177056 [details] [diff] [review]
moving the first group of files

OK.

r=[e-mail]... can you yank the old download preferences FE while you're
in here? (remove from jar.mn + cvs remove)

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: thunderbird changes to use the shared files

matching thunderbird changes to use the new mozapp shared files.

Comment 4

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** Bug 278733 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Scott, I don't if it is already on the radar, but FF and TB both use the
connection dialog for proxy settings and Sunbird would like to use it, too.
Moving the connection dialog to a shared location in /toolkit would greatly
simplify the task of hooking up the connection dialog to Sunbird.

Comment 6

[Benjamin Smedberg]

What is fieldfile?

Comment 7

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Some more traction on this would be great. In Sunbird we're just forking another
piece of code (connection/proxy prefs) to enable proxy configuration for our users.

This continous and forking is pretty painful and a huge maintenance burden.