Right ! I'd like to hear about Fred on that. We should re-think Settings from the ground and take FTE in account.
--- David Scravaglieri Mozilla - Firefox OS On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Sam Foster <[email protected]> wrote: > Splitting out the front and backend of Settings might allow us to re-think > the FTE. The first, non-tutorial part of the (phone) FTU app is basically > another front-end on settings and I've long wanted to reduce the amount of > duplicated code involved. > > /Sam > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:59 AM, Joe Cheng <[email protected]> wrote: > >> with regard to TV, merging the system app definitely is something we need >> to do (being planned) and also the browser. >> >> some other apps (with obvious front end work) would also need to consider >> for TVs are >> >> - Settings >> - Software keyboard >> - Media apps >> - First time experience >> >> Will need to figure out the priorities for each of those and tackle them >> one by one >> >> Re, >> Joe Cheng >> —————————— >> Mozilla Corp. >> [email protected] >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 2:01 AM, Benjamin Francis <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On 16 November 2015 at 09:17, David Scravaglieri < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Just to be clear. >>>> >>>> It’s well understood that Browser is not an app. But there is UI >>>> involved when using the Browser. So, what I am asking for, is a status and >>>> a specific plan for the Browser to be form factor agnostic and to not >>>> duplicate code for every and each type of device. >>>> >>> >>> FWIW on the browser item I'm not sure why we'd single out the browser >>> chrome vs. any other part of the system UI like the status bar, task >>> manager or notifications tray? As you say, the "browser" in Firefox OS is >>> no longer an app, it's just one state of a window in the window manager. >>> With the Alopex experience the browser stands to be even less like an app >>> (there may not even be a browser icon on the homescreen). >>> >>> It's possible we could apply the front end/back end split to the search >>> "app" as it stands, but it seems quite arbitrary to pick out the browser >>> chrome part of the system UI. We need to take a more holistic look at how >>> the whole of the system UI can be made more responsive to different form >>> factors, and whether the new architecture for built-in apps has the same >>> benefits when applied to the system UI (which I'm guessing probably won't >>> use the new app format for the foreseeable future). >>> >>> Note that currently TV uses a completely separate browser app (which >>> actually is a separate app from tv-system) and the same had been planned >>> for the smart feature phone UI. We should probably address that >>> inconsistency first and look at this as part of the wider proposed merger >>> of the smartphone and TV system apps. >>> >>> Ben >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dev-fxos mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-fxos mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos >> >> >
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