70433 - os integration component

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: Administration, task, P3)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

It might be useful to have an "os integration" component, or a set of 
components ("os integration: windows", ...) for things like registering file 
types, registering url schemes (bug 70264), adding a tray icon for new mail, 
etc.  Right now those bugs are scattered throughout various components.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

blake, law, sairuh, would this be useful? as part of the XPApps cleanup maybe
(bug 68621)?

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

i've filed bug 77237 as a request to have a File Handling component. sounds like
this one would overlap with 77237. what preference do folx have? if people favor
the description in this one, i'd actually change the name "OS Integration" to
something else, as it sounds a bit too vague to me.

Comment 3

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Asa: Did anything happen here? I'm trying to track down some OS integration
bugs, but I can't find any sure way of listing all of them, since we seem to
have no appropriate component.

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

ian, no, nothing happened here. 

anyone on the cc: care to comment? do you want this? will one of you own it? I'm
sure that some set of bugs in XP apps could comfortably fit in this bucket.

So do we need one for Browser and one for MailNews too?

sspitzer, putterman, do you think this would be useful for MaiNews?

Comment 5

[scottputterman]

If it would make it easier for other people to look for things than I'm not
against having a Mailnews version of this, though I don't think it's necessary
because I don't think we have too many bugs on this right now for mail.  Right
now they probably are all under Mail Window Frontend.

Comment 6

[Bill Law]

I'd like a set of components, one for each major platform (win/mac/unix).  I'll
own the windows one (but I don't want the other platforms).

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

was just chatting with Asa over irc about this... what do people think of just
making this part of the "file handling" component i've proposed in bug 77237?

i admit, i don't have a strong idea as to how many bugs have already been filed
re: OS integration, so i'm not sure how much "unecessary" bug-bloat this would
cause in a file handling component.

if people would rather have os integration as a separate component[s]: i'm not
sure i should be the default qa contact for all three components [win32, unix, mac].

lisa & other qa ppl, any ideas who'd be able to cover those test areas [or,
who's already testing them]?  i might be able to cover unix and mac, but prolly
not win32... 

Comment 8

[Bill Law]

Some of the bugs that would land under "os integration" would fit under "file
handling," but not all.  For example, somebody is going to ask that choosing
"Configure..." when right-clicking on Mozilla in the WinXP Start Menu open
Mozilla's pref window, rather than IE's Internet Options.  That's not going to
be a "file handling" bug.

Comment 9

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

->me

Comment 10

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

There's no clear request here. For a new component I need a name, a description
which explains by example what bugs are appropriate, a volunteer to own the
component, and a volunteer to QA the component.

WONTFIX. Please reopen if you can provide the above. Thanks.

Comment 11

[timeless]

fwiw, Chimera:
OS Integration [e-mail] [e-mail]
For issues with integrating Chimera with Mac OS X. For example: Services.

How about, Description:
For issues integrating with the OS. Including associating files and protocols
with Mozilla and setting Mozilla as the default application.

proposed Owner: Law, QA: Sairuh

At some point (perhaps now), I'd imagine the Owner and QA would diverge.

Comment 12

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

law, se: do you want this?

Comment 13

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

i think i need to pass on this one, sorry.

as it stands now, for win32 and mac os integration issues, we have two QA on
those [e-mail] for win32 and [e-mail] for mac os. (linux
is up in the air, alas.) i'm not sure who'd be the "default" developers for
those --bill has done win32 in the past, but i don't know who'd be the one
nowadays for mac os or linux...

Comment 14

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Ok, so what I'm hearing is that there isn't really a big demand for this. Please
do not hesitate to file a new bug if this changes.

Comment 15

[lchiang]

I'm going to mark this "verified" as "won't fix" at this time.