678517 - Associate created web app shortcuts with other available browsers after uninstallation

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv7l; rv:8.0a1) Gecko/20110812 Firefox/8.0a1 Fennec/8.0a1

After uninstalling Nightly, the available home-screen web app shortcuts I have 
on my Android home-screen are useless (i.e., "Application is not installed on your phone.") and only stand for deletion.

Should I be able to associate these with other browsers?

Comment 1

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

We use a special "intent" for webapps, so we can get special launch behavior and "app" tab behavior in fennec.

I see no way to re-purpose the shortcuts for other browsers. Considering a WONTFIX, but will think a bit more first.

Comment 2

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

If there is no way to re-purpose the shortcuts, would we at least be able to delete the webapp shortcuts?

Comment 3

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

(In reply to Naoki Hirata :nhirata from comment #2)
> If there is no way to re-purpose the shortcuts, would we at least be able to
> delete the webapp shortcuts?

Deleting is no problem (drag to trash bin in your rom)

Comment 4

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

I understand that you could just drag them to trash, but if you had a bunch of web apps, then deleted the app, that's a lot of addition work.

Comment 5

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

I'm just under the thought of ... if an app placed it there, it should clean up after itself.

Comment 6

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

(In reply to Naoki Hirata :nhirata from comment #5)
> I'm just under the thought of ... if an app placed it there, it should clean
> up after itself.

Unfortunately, Android does not give us a chance to do that. Uninstall does not give us a chance, AIUI