862799 - About:home "Add-ons" panel

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Ian Barlow (:ibarlow)]

This is the bug to track work on the new "Add-ons" panel on about:home, which will be used to show featured add-ons to the user, as well as show their currently installed add-ons. 

Mockups to follow shortly.

Comment 1

[Ian Barlow (:ibarlow)]

Attachment: Mockups of "Add-ons" panel

Comment 2

[Ian Barlow (:ibarlow)]

This bug should include work for:

* Displaying featured add-ons (what we show on the current about:home)
* Providing a link to AMO
* Displaying currently installed add-ons (use the same interaction model we have now for turning these add-ons on and off for now)

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Note, for simplicity I have removed version numbers and add-on types from these lists. In the Featured Add-ons, I also added the descriptive text that explains what they do to make them a little more interesting to users.

Comment 3

[:Margaret Leibovic]

Is this designed to replace about:addons?

Comment 4

[Ian Barlow (:ibarlow)]

Yes, we would likely want one or the other, but not both.

Comment 5

[Sriram Ramasubramanian [:sriram]]

Do we write addons to an XML file or something that we can read from java?

Comment 6

[Sriram Ramasubramanian [:sriram]]

(ssh.. shh.. Shall we move the about:downloads to home page, when we move addons ;) ).

Comment 7

[Ian Barlow (:ibarlow)]

Marking this as Invalid, given our recent decision to rethink our Add-ons UI and move most of this into Settings.