Oh, I also forgot to mention - new home screen is a privileged app. Hopefully the first of many. It is a good example of what's possible with third party applications, and barring the inconvenience of having to extract dependencies from the Gaia tree, could easily be forked as a base to develop your own home-screen and distribute said home-screen on the Firefox Marketplace.
If you have particular tastes or requirements that aren't catered for, I'd encourage you to take a look at the code-base and see if it helps you scratch your itch! --Chris On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Christopher Lord <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > New home screen has landed, and tests are (still) looking green, so > hopefully it sticks. We'll be keeping a close eye on incoming bugs and > tackling any as quickly as we can. I'd like to think it's already pretty > solid, but then I'd like to think lots of things :) > > There are differences to the old home screen, and unfortunately, dividers > and app-grouping are currently unimplemented. It's high priority to be > replaced over the next cycle, but will not be ready for 2.5. We decided > quite early in planning phases that pin-the-web was higher priority than > app-grouping if it came down to it, and it has come down to it. > > Bug 1191745 tracks currently known issues, the largest of which is bug > 1215967 - that vertical paging is enabled by default (but should be > disabled - it's not ready as it is). I'll fix this first thing Monday. > > Second-most notable is probably bug 1215553 - that fullyLoaded time can be > significantly longer than verticalhome (visuallyLoaded is quicker though) - > I'm actively working on this also and intend to get things significantly > better before the week is up. > > Features-wise, new home screen brings pin-the-web, improved interactive > performance, fast icon arrangement (there is no longer an edit mode) and a > persistent search bar. The code-base is also a lot more modular, with > reusable web components and extensive automated testing (both unit and > integration). It is a solid base upon which to start building new features > (first and foremost being app-grouping, or some similar replacement). > > Testing and feedback is, as always, appreciated; especially feedback that > we can act upon before the impending 2.5 release. > > Cheers all, > > --Chris >
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