431837 - Simplify Notification for Application Update within Fennec

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, enhancement, P1)

Description

[Christian Sejersen]

Comment 1

[Stuart Parmenter]

This bug is about presenting users with the notification that an application update is available and that they should update, right?

Comment 2

[Christian Sejersen]

Yes

Comment 3

[Madhava Enros [:madhava]]

I think we should use the bottom right browser-level update notification for this, and have a fourth icon on the secondary control strip (ie. where downloads and add-ons, etc. sit) for updates -- it can light up when there is one.

I'll point to a mockup... in progress.

Comment 4

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

Do we really need this? We are using the application manager to handle updates. Do we need to take UI space for a notification? Will this even be applicable for phones where the vendor controls the apps?

Comment 5

[Christian Sejersen]

I think there will be cases where we don't need it, e.g. the N810, but there are also other platforms where we do need it, e.g. Windows Mobile. 

Comment 6

[Madhava Enros [:madhava]]

Ah, understood.  Ignore my comment above.  This makes this much simpler.

Comment 7

[Stuart Parmenter]

We will still need the ability to tell the user that a new version is available and while our mechanism for updating might be different (i.e. not using our own updater), we probably want the ability to launch the application update manager on the n810 and have an update start.

Comment 8

[Johnathan Nightingale [:johnath]]

Resetting assignee since I'm not currently working on this.

Comment 9

[Stuart Parmenter]

For Maemo, since the OS handles updates I think it is OK to just let the OS notification be enough.  We should look at adding an additional notification to the user so that they know to run the application manager and do an update.

Comment 10

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

(In reply to comment #9)
> For Maemo, since the OS handles updates I think it is OK to just let the OS
> notification be enough.  We should look at adding an additional notification to
> the user so that they know to run the application manager and do an update.

Agreed. This simplifies things. I think Madhava's idea of just displaying a popup alert should be enough.

Madhava?

Comment 11

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

We have update notification in the product now. Maemo does not use them since we don't use the Mozilla updater on Maemo.

We don't seem to have any need for a system update notification shown in the product. Reopen if we need to do this.