621427 - Addon Collector needs an easy way to change Profile of an Auto-Published Collection

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Collector Extension, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Quinn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.0.04506)
Build Identifier: Addon Collector 1.2.1

If the user needs to make a new profile, they lose their auto-published collections unless they can find and copy the relevant about:config entries.  In many situations, the old profile may not be available, as in a hard drive crash, but it may be desirable to keep the old auto-publisher, because the short-name and subscriptions are already established.

I am currently in a common situation in which this would be very helpful.  I am the person most interested in new addons in my social group, so I have a half-dozen subscribers to the auto-published collections based on my desktop and laptop computers. My laptop recently crashed, and I had to wipe the main drive and reinstall my OS.  As I am not certain what caused the instability, I do not want to simply use my old profile folder, and am instead using a clean install, aided by sync addons such as Xmarks, LastPass, and Add-On Collector.  It would be most convenient if I could simply install the addons currently listed in the collection, then set my new profile as the source for that auto-publisher from this point forward.  I was able to find instructions on which about:config entries I need to copy several months ago (the last time I had to wipe the desktop), but cannot find the discussion thread now.  A setting to "take over" an auto-publisher with the current profile if it is one you own would save me a lot of digging in my old profile's config.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Currently, you have to find and copy relevant entries in about:config from the old profile to the new one in order to take over an auto-publisher.

Expected Results:  
It would be preferable for there to be a setting that allows users to change the profile associated with an auto-publisher that they own.

Comment 1

[Brian King [:kinger]]

Nice idea ... we should consider it.

Comment 2

[David McNamara [:mackers]]

This lands in r95122

This required a new context menu when right click on collection in left hand side menu:

- Reload Collection
- View
- Manage [if coll. is editable]
- Unsubscribe
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- Make Auto-Publisher [if coll. is editable]

2 new strings in extensionsBoxOverlay.xul

Comment 3

[Brian King [:kinger]]

For the new strings, I've added English placeholders in all languages for now to avoid breakage. r95149. I'll alert translators.

I'm wondering if "Make Auto-Publisher" is clear? Other suggestions:

- Set as Auto-Publisher
- Convert to Auto-Publisher
- Use as Auto-Publisher

Comment 4

[David McNamara [:mackers]]

Changed to "Set as Auto-Publisher". It's a little clearer.

r95596

Comment 5

[Quinn]

Sweet!  Thank you very much for your work on this- I have been keeping an eye on the updates, and you guys rock!  This will help save a lot of digging around in config files. :-)