670677 - Notify user of successfully installed web app

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

After installing a web app via the site identity panel, the user should be notified if it was successfully installed or not, either by some fancy animation or simply via a toaster notification: "<shorthand site name> web application successfully installed."

Comment 1

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

I suppose a toaster isn't too bad.

Madhava - thoughts?

Comment 3

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

I don't think a "installed!" notification goes far enough.

Unless the user has read the Fennec user manual, they'll never know where their "app" went unless the notification explicitly describes how to find it and add it.

If this is an "app", then it should install like one: in Applications. That would meet the user's expectation from a menu item labeled "Install as app".

Otherwise, we should change the label in the UI to "Create shortcut". This would be consistent with this feature's behavior and Android's terminology for this feature.

Even that wouldn't meet a criteria of Just Works, since it's actually just creating the ability to add a shortcut, not actually adding it anywhere, which could be frustrating to people who don't go digging around through submenus' submenus. It should also add the shortcut to an available homescreen. (Note: Honeycomb adds newly installed apps to the homescreen automatically.)

Comment 4

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

Er, sorry for hijacking this bug. I'll file a separate one if you want.