401692 - Prism is not creating shortcuts

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Labs :: Prism, defect)

Description

[dtakamori]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8
Build Identifier: prism-0.8-win32.exe

Prism does not appear to be creating the expected webapp shortcuts on my desktop, or anywhere else obvious.  Using XP Home.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1) Install Prism
2) Launch Prism
3) Enter http://www.google.com/reader with the name "Google Reader".
Actual Results:  
After a bit of flashing, Prism's gone and there's no change to the desktop.  

Expected Results:  
Expected to see an application shortcut on the desktop, or some other prompt, rather than exiting.

Also tried "GoogleReader" (no spaces).   
Hand-searched for a file in C:\Documents and Settings as well as C:\Program Files\Prism but no luck.  I didn't see any obvious dump/core file but I may not have looked in the right place.

Comment 1

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

should be a duplicate of bug 401201

Comment 2

[dtakamori]

As noted in the original bug, this occurs without spaces as well.  It's not the same issue.  It's not clear what the issue is, however.  If there are steps I can take to diagnose the issue, please advise.

Updated steps:
1) Install Prism
2) Launch Prism
3) Enter http://www.google.com with the web application name "foo".

Same results as noted in original submission.

Comment 3

[dtakamori]

Argh.  After debugging it a bit, I realized that this was User error.  I was in a rush and I didn't click on any of the "Create Shortcuts" checkboxes- BUT it shouldn't let me click Ok if I haven't selected any of them!  The validation in InstallShortcut.accept() does not report anything if a user hasn't selected a shortcut and just goes away silently if locations is an empty string.

Comment 4

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Argh.  After debugging it a bit, I realized that this was User error.  I was in
> a rush and I didn't click on any of the "Create Shortcuts" checkboxes- BUT it
> shouldn't let me click Ok if I haven't selected any of them!  The validation in
> InstallShortcut.accept() does not report anything if a user hasn't selected a
> shortcut and just goes away silently if locations is an empty string.
> 

The fix in bug 401201 prompts the user if no shortcuts are selected, so I'll mark this "fixed", instead of "invalid"