942293 - [meta] Support for additional layout and view types

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Awesomescreen, defect)

Description

[:Margaret Leibovic]

In bug 862805, we're assuming the list data is just a list of sites, but there can be different kinds of list data (e.g. reading lists, pictures, videos).

We shouldn't expand the scope of this too much for v1, but we should make sure our architecture supports different types of displays for the list data. As part of this we could try to implement one alternate type of list display, e.g. a "text preview list" that displays paragraph previews of reading list items.

Comment 1

[:Margaret Leibovic]

The world has changed since this bug was filed. Bug 959777 lays the foundation for adding different kinds of views to third-party panels, so let's just use this bug to track the different kinds of views we want to support.

With our current implementation, a panel has one layout, and that layout can contain multiple views. LayoutType and ViewType are used to specify the different types of layouts and views.

Comment 2

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