425421 - Override build ID and version

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Mozilla Labs :: Prism, defect)

Description

[Matthew Gertner]

It should be possible to override the values for build ID and version in webapp.ini.

Comment 1

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

why?

Comment 2

[Matthew Gertner]

JJ, why do you guys want to override the build ID and version?

Comment 3

[JJ Zhuang]

Matt, Mark,

The reason we want to override things like version and buildId is so that things like about.js can pull information from webapp, instead of from prism application.ini.

For example, in about.js:

var appInfo = Cc["@mozilla.org/xre/app-info;1"].getService(Ci.nsIXULAppInfo);
version.value = bundle.GetStringFromName("brandFullName") + " " + appInfo.version;

We actually want to change it to:

 version.value = bundle.GetStringFromName("brandFullName") + " " + appInfo.version + " (build " + appInfo.appBuildID + ")";

So that the about dialog can show buildId as well.  But at the same time we don't want to directly modify application.ini if possible, hence we'd like to override from webapp.ini.

BTW, slightly off the topic, about.xul takes app icon from

<image src="chrome://branding/locale/icon128.png"/>

I feel even this icon should come from webapp instead of prism branding.

Thanks!

Comment 4

[Matthew Gertner]

I think what we really want is some way for a webapp to display a customized about box, not the Prism about box.

Comment 5

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Prism isn't maintained anymore. Mass closing of the bugs.