652790 - Append profile name to WM_ROLE

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, enhancement)

Description

[Christoph Kappel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/534.29 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.735.0 Safari/534.29
Build Identifier: Mozilla Firefox 4.0

Generally the WM_ROLE can be used to address a specific window for many things like properties or placement. It would be really helpful, when Firefox appends the name of the currently used profile to the WM_ROLE.

I would appreciate a naming like 'browser-profilename' or something like that, that doesn't clash with other Firefox windows.

I will rely on the output of xprop in the actual and expected results boxes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Firefox
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3.

Actual Results:  
WM_WINDOW_ROLE(STRING) = "browser"

Expected Results:  
WM_WINDOW_ROLE(STRING) = "browser-profilename"

Comment 1

[Thomas Ahlblom]

Reproduced with latest Nightly.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110515 Firefox/6.0a1

$ xprop|grep WM_WINDOW_ROLE
WM_WINDOW_ROLE(STRING) = "browser"

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

The relevant code doesn't have a concept of a profile name (because Firefox can be launched with -profile /path), and I don't want to accept the complexity that would be required to actually fix this.

Comment 3

[Christoph Kappel]

So because you cannot fetch the profile name from a given path the issue is just WONTFIX?

I really can't believe that there is a complexity at all, because you can happily set the WM_ROLE after the profile loading is complete and therefore you have the name of it.

Comment 4

[Christoph Kappel]

Since --class (https://bugzil.la/496653) finally works again, why can't it be used with profiles from the profile manager? Can't be a solution to write my own profile manager at all..