Great to have the privileged homescreen \o/
Nit: Today I open the raptor test and find it seems only work with the legacy homescreen. If you want test with raptor recently, remember to switch back to the legacy homescreen. regards -- Fred On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:14 AM, Christopher Lord <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > >
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