953940 - [Fugu][Gallery][Email] Cannot go back to gallery after sharing picture via email

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 937400

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Gallery, defect)

Description

[Bingqing Li]

Environment:
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v1.3
Gaia      01e9da49be2cc4bc134eeefc434740d572ec2246
Gecko     http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-aurora/rev/af28fe58e263
BuildID   20131224004001
Version   28.0a2

v1.2
Gaia      724d36716bcbbc5cee1af18b94cc328c289d0ccc
Gecko     http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-b2g26_v1_2/rev/931864adcf68
BuildID   20131224004001
Version   26.0


Steps to reproduce:
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1. Goto Gallery
2. Tap on a picture
3. Share the picture via Email
4. Send the email


Actual results:
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After the email is sent successfully, it will not go back to gallery.


Expected results:
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After the email is sent successfully, it goes back to gallery.

Comment 1

[John Hu [:johnhu][:johu][:醬糊小弟]]

This is normal behavior because email app uses "window" as its disposition[1]. I don't know if productivity team is going to change it or not. But in the current design, it works as expected.

cc andrew to let him know this.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/728e3dfbe146d54c4bcd4121db373c41dd0b3f1e/apps/email/manifest.webapp#L61

Comment 2

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

The good news is that :alive implemented returning to the calling app even in the case of 'window' disposition apps.  See bug 909255 for the fix.  There are a lot of bugs related to activities and e-mail so I did create https://etherpad.mozilla.org/fxos-email-activity-fix-history which is helpfully useful to avoid having to walk all the bugs oneself.

We have bug 937400 in the e-mail component that is basically the same bug, so I'm doing to dupe this to that one.  In that bug, it appears that the problem is that the gallery app got closed because the e-mail app used up enough memory that the out-of-memory-killer killed the gallery app.  The only thing gallery can really do about that is to try and reduce its memory usage.