867371 - [Meta] Settings UI Changes

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Comment 1

[Chenxia Liu [:liuche]]

This bug tracks Fennec settings UI changes.

This includes reorganizing the settings hierarchy, adding/changing preferences to be controlled, and using full preference screens throughout (instead of dialogs).

Comment 2

[Chenxia Liu [:liuche]]

Rough outline of settings hierarchy: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/settings-reorg

Comment 3

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Future: make sure to remove the comment in GeckoPreferences.java that refers to this bug!

Comment 4

[Chenxia Liu [:liuche]]

Even though the settings UI has several areas that are still unimplemented, I think the right approach will be to reorder at a higher level and then start inserting features as they get finished, because most of the subcategories have at least a two items.

One thing to consider is whether we want to have any "Basic" preferences that are top-level (such as Sync and import) so users can see them without having to dig through any menus.

Comment 5

[Chenxia Liu [:liuche]]

Hi Teodora, can you try this build on your device, to see if the problem still exists in this build? It will install as a Nightly app, not an Aurora one.

http://people.mozilla.com/~liuche/bug-871978/no-switch-nightly.apk

Alternatively, can QA check that this fixes the bug on an Android device of the same version as the reporters? This should be any device between v11 and v13, inclusive.

Comment 6

[Chenxia Liu [:liuche]]

(Sorry, wrong bug!)

Comment 7

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

We use the relnote flag for things that are fixed already or are known issues that need to be noted, not for a meta bug on a feature that hasn't been implemented yet.  Please renom when this is within a targeted release (ideally fixed on trunk).

Comment 8

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

(In reply to Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] from comment #7)
> We use the relnote flag for things that are fixed already or are known
> issues that need to be noted, not for a meta bug on a feature that hasn't
> been implemented yet.  Please renom when this is within a targeted release
> (ideally fixed on trunk).

If memory serves I nomed this bug to capture the group of changes that went in to Firefox 25 or 26. At any rate, no need to keep this nom as it's mighty old.

Comment 9

[BMO Automation]

We have completed our launch of our new Firefox on Android. The development of the new versions use GitHub for issue tracking. If the bug report still reproduces in a current version of [Firefox on Android nightly](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fenix) an issue can be reported at the [Fenix GitHub project](https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/). If you want to discuss your report please use [Mozilla's chat](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix#Connect_to_Matrix) server https://chat.mozilla.org and join the [#fenix](https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#fenix:mozilla.org) channel.