Closed
Bug 496654
Opened 15 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
let controls strip get wider, for use by add-ons
Categories
(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)
Firefox for Android Graveyard
General
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
WONTFIX
People
(Reporter: madhava, Assigned: fabrice.desre)
References
Details
Attachments
(6 files, 2 obsolete files)
Right now, on most screens in landscape orientation, there's room for only one more button in the control strip. Add-ons ought to exercise some restraint in terms of whether they really need to have a button in our equivalent of primary chrome, but either way we have to provide some more room for those that _do_ need to. The tab area expands (automatically) to two columns-worth when the user has opened more tabs; could we do the same for the control strip when the number of buttons added by add-ons needs to overflow? Some buttons ought to stay in their places (see diagram). And this whole area should snap out (as with the tab side) -- you shouldn't have to drag more to get the whole thing out.
Flags: wanted-fennec1.0?
Updated•15 years ago
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Flags: wanted-fennec1.0? → wanted-fennec1.0+
Updated•15 years ago
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Assignee: nobody → mark.finkle
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
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Comment 1•15 years ago
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Here's a proposal to make add-ons be first class citizens in Fennec : - add an "applications" button in the control strip (hard part: find a good icon) that opens a panel in which add-ons can add their own icon. - once you click on an application icon, open the application in a pseudo dialog. Fennec will provide UI and methods to minimize/close/navigate running applications. This is like a small application manager, and could also be used to provide support for W3C widgets.
Comment 2•15 years ago
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Anusha is going to think about it.
After some thought, I decided to go for Fabrice's idea of a separate panel. If one has many add-ons, they can start typing the name in the search field and the relevant results will begin to show up on the first row. On clicking on one of the icons of the add-ons, the panel disappears and the application is opened, wherever and however it is meant to be opened. Let me know if I've missed a point and what you think of it.
Attachment #401714 -
Flags: ui-review?(madhava)
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Comment 4•15 years ago
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This is a WIP with the following features : - a new (+) button is added in the browser controls bar, which opens a searchable list of installed applications. - selecting an application launches it full screen. You can minimize an application with the top right button. - once minimized, you'll see that the application appears in the tab list, and can be closed or maximized from here. - applications can ask for a notification icon to be added when they are minimized. The patch features two sample apps : about:config revisited and a simple acess to google maps. I also have GraffiTwit supporting this framework. The styling has only be done for hildon.
Assignee: mark.finkle → fabrice.desre
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Comment 5•15 years ago
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updated patch fixing a bug in themes/hildon/jar.mn and updated to current nightly
Attachment #407542 -
Attachment is obsolete: true
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Comment 6•15 years ago
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fixes an issue when closing apps and when clicking on the notification icon
Attachment #407720 -
Attachment is obsolete: true
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Comment 7•15 years ago
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The pplication chooser : a running app has a orange glow, and apps that can only be launch once are dimmed if already running
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Comment 8•15 years ago
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showing apps in the tab strip. Notice that you can close all apps, but not the web view.
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Comment 9•15 years ago
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the about:config sample application
Comment 10•15 years ago
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@Fabrice Looks great :) But maybe use a blue or green circle glow instead ? And allow more space for text.
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Comment 11•15 years ago
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Thanks Antoine. The look is easy to change and I have close to no graphical skills... About the text, I'm not sure I even want to display it. It is very short and thus get cropped to the limit of usefulness, but using a bigger size will make too huge buttons.
Comment 12•15 years ago
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adding in-litmus? so we remember to add testcases for this new feature when it goes in.
Flags: in-litmus?
Comment 13•15 years ago
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Not sure it is a good idea or not, but I'm starting to think that this should live somewhere near the awesomebar results / bookmarks. Why? - there is more space for a text and the icon - the '+' button taking space on the UI even if you will never use it - the awesome screen is used to go 'somewhere'
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Comment 14•15 years ago
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Vivien, why not, but I really like applications to be reachable without keyboard interaction. Would this mean adding another row like "See all bookmarks" displaying the application list ? We can try that and see how it works !
Comment 15•14 years ago
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I don't think we have plans to add this feature
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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