744491 - update titlebar to reflect <title> of page

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Graveyard :: Webapp Runtime, enhancement, P3)

Description

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

Currently, the runtime sets the title of the webapp window to the name of the webapp on startup.  That's a reasonable initial value, but it should update it to the <title> of the page, if the page provides one, and update it whenever the <title> changes.

Also see the security issue mentioned in bug 741955.  One solution is to put the origin of the page into the titlebar of any windows in which a page from a third-party origin is currently loaded.

Comment 1

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

UX should comment here to determine the best workflow.

Comment 2

[Jennifer Arguello :ticachica]

FWIW, UX should take into account how the title bar of a window works in both Windows and Mac. For Mac I see apps that keep the name of the app in the title bar and some that change it to the view you're in. Just from my own small research it doesn't seem consistent.

Comment 3

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Marking this as an enhancement, as I don't think this is a functionality bug (it sounds more like a feature request). Watching my use of thunderbird today, the title of the app can change depending on where you are in the app (e..g view all emails in mozilla apps), so this feature request does make sense. I do wonder if we should persist the application name and enhance it with the title though (e.g. Lanyrd Mobile - Login - generally app name - <title>).

Comment 4

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Also as a note to triage - Based on looking at other bugs, I think we could live without this for a first release. Good idea, but feels like a nice to have and does not block the user flow in the first release.

Comment 5

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Do we really still want this? The current titlebar (app in origin, app + off-origin if off origin) seems sufficient right now. Adding too much clutter on the titlebar will likely create more confusion than benefit.

Comment 6

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

(In reply to Jason Smith [:jsmith] from comment #5)
> Do we really still want this?

Yes, we do still want this!


> The current titlebar (app in origin, app +
> off-origin if off origin) seems sufficient right now. Adding too much
> clutter on the titlebar will likely create more confusion than benefit.

We wouldn't merely add the page title, we'd remove the app title in the process, so this doesn't necessarily increase titlebar clutter.  Apps could then use the page title to make the titlebar more cluttered, but that's their decision to make.

Comment 7

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

Per bug 1238079, we're going to disable the desktop web runtime and remove it from the codebase, so we won't fix these bugs in it.