791246 - No toast notification on URL home-screen shortcut creation

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Andreea Pod]

Build: Firefox 18 (2012-09-14)
Device: Samsung Galaxy Nexus
OS: Android 4.1.1

Precondition: An application was successfully installed on a user's device.


Steps to reproduce:
1. go to about:apps
2. Long tap and hold on any installed application
3. Select Add to Home Screen from the context menu

Expected results: - an Android toast notification should appear indicating that the selected application has been added to the home-screen. The notification should indicate the application name and disappear after a few short seconds.

Actual result: - nothing happens

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

createShortcut seems to be failing

E/GeckoAppShell( 4961): createShortcut with no unique URI should not be used for aType = webapp!

Comment 2

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

I'm also seeing no notification for regularly added URL's.

Comment 3

[Andreea Pod]

I was able to reproduce this since "Add to Home Screen" feature was introduced with Bug 711905.

Comment 4

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

Are the shortcuts being added? We have no control over the toast. Its shown by Android. I'll have to dig into the Jellybean source to try and figure out why its not being shown.

On my Gingerbread phone the shortcuts are added and the toast is shown. On JellyBean the shortcuts are added with no toast. i.e. Everything is happening correctly, just no toast.

I wrote up a fix for the log message you are seeing Aaron, but it is not the cause of this bug, and if its not causing problems I'd rather just wait and put in a better fix once the JNI.js stuff is done.

Comment 5

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

These toasts are created by the system. Since (AFAIK) the shortcuts are being created, this must be a bug in Android. I'm going to resolve this WONTFX.