707277 - No indication of where an app is installed after clicking install

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 747283

(Marketplace Graveyard :: Consumer Pages, defect)

Description

[Mohamed Dabbagh]

When the user installs a native app, it is unclear to them as to where the app was installed on their machine. It would be helpful if another door-hanger notification or a pop-up appeared stating the locations of the native apps on the different supported operating systems.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Firefox - make sure to use FF9 or greater
2. Install the Apps extension - Can be found at http://people.mozilla.com/~dclarke/openwebapps/Extension/ and look for openwebapps-78d3014fe4-12_01_2011.xpi
3. Go to apps.mozillalabs.com/appdir 
4. Install an app - Make sure to choose 'Install (with Native app)' from the door-hanger notification

Actual Result:
No indication of where the native app was installed is given.

Expected Results:
A notification of some sort stating where native apps are installed on the supported platforms would be good.

Comment 1

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

A Pivotal Tracker story has been created for this Bug: http://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/24808715

Comment 2

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Definitely mozilla-central worthy. This is noted on the requirements for the web apps integration into desktop feature.

Comment 3

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

generalizing this, since it's not clear to the user what happens post install

Comment 4

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

This needs to be a part of the doorhanger notification process Fabrice implemented. Assigning to Fabrice.

Comment 5

[[:fabrice] Fabrice Desré]

Please don't assign me desktop specific bugs without asking. Thanks.

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Not going to block on this but it would be a nice k9o addition.

Comment 7

[Ragavan S [:rags]]

Sorry - this should be a blocker for k9o. If not, users will have no way of finding where their apps went after installation.

Comment 8

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

(In reply to Ragavan S [:rags] from comment #7)
> Sorry - this should be a blocker for k9o. If not, users will have no way of
> finding where their apps went after installation.

Agreed. Initial testing from contributors and internal employees has already shown this to a significant UX problem.

Comment 9

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Me three.  And I suspect Diane would concur, given discussions we had yesterday about the current and her soon-to-be-proposed UX for installing apps in Firefox 15 Desktop.

Comment 10

[Jennifer Arguello :ticachica]

We are seeing feedback on our internal release already about this. The current implementation in Desktop is just at alpha quality and so the full flows were not implemented in time for this release.

Comment 11

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Based on the recent UX discussion, one partial proposal in the air to solve this could be indicating where the application was installed on the user's machine. This includes saying things such as:

- Created a desktop shortcut on your machine
- Added to your start menu

Comment 12

[Jennifer Arguello :ticachica]

Changing the dependency around since this bug depends on bug 731543 being fixed.

Comment 13

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

(In reply to Jennifer Arguello :ticachica from comment #12)
> Changing the dependency around since this bug depends on bug 731543 being
> fixed.

I wonder if we should call this bug a dup of bug 731543, as they both relate to the same underlying problem.

Comment 14

[Jennifer Arguello :ticachica]

(In reply to Jason Smith [:jsmith] from comment #13)
> (In reply to Jennifer Arguello :ticachica from comment #12)
> > Changing the dependency around since this bug depends on bug 731543 being
> > fixed.
> 
> I wonder if we should call this bug a dup of bug 731543, as they both relate
> to the same underlying problem.

It'd be great to have a meta bug with both the desktop and the fennec post install attached to it. This would be helpful for K9o tracking.

Comment 16

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

FYI - Marketplace has put in a UI in the short-term to partially mitigate the issue identified in this bug. We should resolve this on our end though (this is a problem on our end of the code). When we fix this, we should sync up with the marketplace team to see if there post-install UI is still needed or not.

Comment 17

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

For Fx15 UX has recommended using what marketplace has established for now for post-install notifications. Migrating to Marketplace and marking as resovlved fixed. Krupa - What bug should this be duped against? Or should this remain resolved fixed? Feel free to change it to your needs.