On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Wil Clouser <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
This sounds good to me. I like the idea that we can use the long name in the settings app on the device, while still using the short name in the icon grid. We'd likely want to display both the short name and the long name to the user in the install prompt though. / Jonas _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
