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Status update: Extension Manager UI, Tab Matches in Awesomebar
Extension Manager UI Redesign
Status
- Download progress widget done. Should be possible to do a fancy button -> progress transition.
- Local search done - including sorting based on relevance to search string
- AMO search not done - need API support and UX details
- Lot's of UX questions for Boriss
- Weekly meeting notes here
Loose ends
- Waiting on project branch to be setup (bug 542910)
Next steps
- Install/uninstall/update/enable/disable
- AMO Search
- Help with API development
Target for next week
- Install/uninstall/update/enable/disable (assuming API support is ready)
- Otherwise, integration issues
Tab matches in Awesomebar
Status
- Another round of reviews. Getting there!
Loose ends
- None
Next steps
Target for next week
- Landed? Plz?
Miscellaneous
- As a fun side-project, I've been playing with making the Firefox team's projects page look pretty. You can see the result here: http://theunfocused.net/moz/status/status.html. Uses a bunch of newer CSS stuff, so requires Firefox 3.6+ (support for other modern browsers is next-weekend's task). Using YQL, it pulls data from the projects page, whois page, and planet Firefox.
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- Learn like you know nothing
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February 16th, 2010 - 15:15
Just a little major (yes its a little major because it almost never happens but irks me beyond belief when it does) bug/ nust have feature
when i accept and add-on install i frequently close the tab and go another place until i´m ready to install the add on.
Quite sometimes my internet connection instability will cause the install to fail, them a modal dialog will interrupt my workflow, and worst, it gives me no option to re-attempt the install.
the correct behavior would be to the add-ons manager install tabe countinue to be displayed and provide a button to re-attempt the download and a right click to go back to the install site (ala the download manager´s “open download page”
On the modal dialog interruption i have noting constructive to say, because the non-advanced users might not notice the warning on the current yellow bar non-modal notification
If needed i´ll post this to bugzilla if you care to appoint the corrct component
February 16th, 2010 - 21:09
The ‘Firefox team status’ page is great, and shows a lot of the new CSS features.
But for a lot of the projects there is no link to anything more detailed on that project. For example for the ‘Print Preview’, which sounds very interesting, doesn’t have any bug number?
February 17th, 2010 - 00:01
Goolic: Yes, that sounds like something that should be solved in the new extension manager. And regarding the model dialog (yuck!), there’s also a project that has plans for providing better notifications: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Doorhanger_notifications
February 17th, 2010 - 00:12
Alfred: Thanks
I have a few extra CSS goodies still to add (like @font-face, and maybe border-image).
There are 3 projects there without their own page, as well as a couple in inactive projects and future projects (which my status dashboard doesn’t index yet). I think at the very least, a bug number should be referenced. I’ll be sure to annoy the relevant people this week and at the next team meeting.