747789 - Epic - Firefox Start

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tracking Graveyard :: Metro Operations, defect)

Description

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

Attachment: Start screen 1

This task is to support the Windows 8 start screen
Please see the attached screenshots.

- The new start screen should have the following sections: Top sites, bookmarks, recent history, and downloads
- They should appear as a group of tiles/boxes for each of those sections
- Initially only part of that screen should be visible and the user can swipe from right to left to start revealing the rest of the content.. (Similar to how the windows 8 start screen).

Comment 1

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

Attachment: Start screen 2

Comment 2

[Jonathan Wilde [:jwilde]]

This will be implemented as an "unfiltered" state of the autocomplete screen in bug 747790. This state will be automatically be shown when:

- There are no results to show in the autocomplete screen because the user hit backspace enough to clear out the bar.
- When the user is on about:start (which, under-the-hood, is an alias of about:blank).

Comment 3

[Jonathan Wilde [:jwilde]]

Scaffolding is now in place.  Now, I've just got to implement the view code for the different start screen sections to fill the grids in with data.

http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/elm/rev/1c2eaa739c94

Comment 4

[Jonathan Wilde [:jwilde]]

Static recent history section:
http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/elm/rev/b28001fb05c5

Comment 5

[Jonathan Wilde [:jwilde]]

Support bookmarks section:
https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/elm/rev/5866e4ea35eb

Comment 6

[Jonathan Wilde [:jwilde]]

Adding support for downloads:
http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/elm/rev/f66e376a9f3c

Comment 7

[Jonathan Wilde [:jwilde]]

Making bookmarks be updated when things change:
http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/elm/rev/bdadd1251588

Comment 8

[Jonathan Wilde [:jwilde]]

Removing old resources:
https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/elm/rev/f58de4c8c056

Comment 10

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

The Awesome screen is the Metro Firefox user's starting point when she launches Firefox or opens a new tab. This group of stories covers the primary interactions with the Awesome screen.