44249 - rename pipnss & pippki to more understandable names

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Having a directory at the top level (i.e. in the application folder) called 'UI', 
contining PSM user-interface files, is not good for the user-experience. This 
folder should be moved into a subfolder, either in chrome/, or Essential Files 
(on Mac). Do *not* put it in res/; res/ is going away.

Comment 1

[Mitchell Stoltz (not reading bugmail)]

reassign to crypto.

Comment 2

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Note to self: these files are loaded in mozilla/security/psm/lib/nlslayer/
nlslayer.cpp

Comment 3

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

For these properties files to be localizable, and change when the user chooses a 
different UI language, the files should be in chrome/locales, methinks. So this 
is a localization bug.

Comment 4

[tao]

Unless PSM does not use XUL, all XUL files should live in chrome/packages, 
and all locale-sensitive files (*.dtd & *properties) in chrome/locales/.

Comment 5

[David P. Drinan]

Setting target release to future.

Comment 6

[John Unruh]

This appears to be fixed. There is now a psmdata folder with subfolders UI and 
Doc.

Comment 7

[tao]

This bug calls for moving PSM's UI to under chrome/ so we can localize them and
switch them on the fly.

Moving them to psmdata/UI does not fulfill the request. I am reopening the bug
and change summary accordingly.

Comment 8

[John Unruh]

nsbeta1

Comment 9

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

So now PSM2 has "pipnss" and "pippki" jar files in chrome. yipee.

However, I cannot help thinking that these names are meaningless to anyone but 
those working on the code. Please oh please try to come up with user-meaningful 
names for files that the user will see on their system, and bear in mind that on 
some platforms, users *do* go looking around their filesystems, and will get 
worried/confused about weirdly-named files ("Do I have a virus?").

Comment 10

[John G. Myers]

Changing summary to reflect the new issue.

Suggestions for better names would be appropriate.  I would suggest 
"cryptonet" and "cryptoui".

Comment 11

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Better, but InterCaps makes them more readable: CryptoNet, CryptoUI. Can we think 
of something better than CryptoNet?

Comment 12

[David P. Drinan]

->future

Comment 13

[John Unruh]

Mass assigning QA to ckritzer.

Comment 14

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

How important is this renaming? Aren't the files in a private folder of the
Mozilla installation?

Comment 15

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Less so now that, on Mac OS X, the app is packaged as a bundle. Still, some
users like to poke around in there, and it will help them to have readable
names. Probably not worth fixing now, but next time you create any file that
goes on disk in the installation, choose a name that makes sense to *users*, not
to *developers*.

Comment 16

[John Unruh]

Marking wontfix.

Comment 17

[John Unruh]

Verified.