726965 - Add-on sync needs visual progress feedback

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Sync, defect)

Description

[Reuben Morais [:reuben]]

We don't have any visual feedback when add-ons are being synched. It's confusing and the user might try to install his add-ons again. We should add a panel to the Add-ons Manager mentioning that Sync is in progress or something like that.

Comment 1

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

Not sure how we'll want to proceed here. On one hand, I agree with you. On the other, one of the tenets of Sync is for it to "just work" [without any UI].

When Sync is installing extensions, about:addons will show progress as it is being made. Basically, an extension will magically show up once it is installed by Sync.

Assigning to Sync product for now. Maybe add-ons people can comment.

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Yeah I'm unsure what we'd do here. The synced add-ons should show up in the add-ons manager anyway (even if a restart is necessary to install them), and I wouldn't expect there to be an issue if users tried installing add-ons again.

Comment 3

[Blair McBride [:Unfocused] (UNAVAILABLE)]

(In reply to Gregory Szorc [:gps] from comment #1)
> When Sync is installing extensions, about:addons will show progress as it is
> being made. Basically, an extension will magically show up once it is
> installed by Sync.

Yep. It'll even show a progress bar for the download/install progress.

One thing the Add-ons Manager could do is show something in the manual-install confirmation dialog - "You already have this add-on installed". Which would be useful even without Sync. Filed bug 756348.

Comment 4

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Greg: more triage needed?

Comment 5

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

I don't believe there is any interest for this.