Hi, We are hitting a scenario in the apps world which warrants some discussion. The Marketplace was built to treat the manifest as the ultimate source of truth and changing your app's name or authors in the manifest would automatically update it on the Marketplace.
Harald has brought up a couple of use cases a few people are hitting (from bug 991288): > Use Case: > 1) Game developer X has a game with a well-known brand "Give me Cookies!". > For the device the name would be too long so they set the "name" in the > manifest to "Cookies!". When submitting the app to Marketplace they want to > use the full name, as there is no space limitation that would require > shortening the name. > > 2) App studio Iahoo has a weather app. The brand is well known, so for > Marketplace they want it to be titled "Iahoo Weather", but on the device > "Weather" would work better. Both Apple and Google allow developers to set short and long names on their stores, so there is some precedent here. From the Marketplace POV, I'd like to continue to keep the manifest as the source of truth so my first reaction would be to add an optional "short_name" attribute to the manifest which would be used on the device in icon grids, but for places where space wasn't an issue (both on the device and on the Marketplace) we would use the current "name" field. An obvious alternative to that would be the inverse - we add a "long_name" field to the manifest and use that in the appropriate places. This may be less work for the device (I'm not sure) but feels more awkward to me as a developer. A third option would be to just let developers choose a name in the Marketplace and ignore the manifest altogether, but that means developers have to maintain a name in two places and it doesn't help any other marketplaces or websites displaying apps. Thoughts? Ideas? Thanks, Wil PS - there is a potential for confusion between inconsistent short and long names but we have a review process on the Marketplace so I'm mostly ignoring that aspect for right now. _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
