On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:41:53PM -0700, Myk Melez wrote: > Bill Walker wrote: > >I think adding a short_name field makes sense. For sure the manifest needs > >to be the source of truth about app names. We'll also need to think about > >what happens when we install these apps on Android and Windows, I'm not sure > >if other OS'es support long and short app names; if not, we'll want to > >document that so we set developer expectations appropriately. > Android doesn't require apps to display a name/icon in its > "top-level launcher" (Home/All Apps screens or third-party > interface) at all! And apps can choose arbitrary names and icons for > an arbitrary number of "launcher intents" (main entry points) to > display there. > > But most apps I've installed have a single launcher intent whose > name is identical to or resembles the name of the app in the store. > And our Android runtime does exactly that for webapps. It currently > uses the manifest's "name" field, but it should be trivial to make > it use a shorter name, if available and desirable. > > And the same should be true for the desktop runtime on all desktop > platforms: we can name a webapp's executable/alias/shortcut/bundle > anything we want. > > So a short_name manifest field shouldn't present any problems on our > other runtimes, and I agree that it makes sense. > > But I've been surprised and confused before on Android when an app I > installed gave its launcher intent a completely different name. > > So we should consider steps to reduce the risk of such user > confusion, like requiring long and short names of apps in > Marketplace to be reasonably similar, or perhaps simply displaying > both names in various representations of the app (its Marketplace > page, the "confirm install" dialog, etc.).
Thanks for all the replies. I've filed followup bugs: Bug 1001860 - Support short_name in web app manifests on desktop Bug 1001861 - Support short_name in web app manifests on FxOS Bug 1001862 - Support short_name in web app manifests on Android Bug 1001864 - Show short_name in reviewer tools And I've CC'd reviewers on the last bug and mentioned updating the reviewer guidelines to ensure appropriately similar short_names to names. Thanks, Wil _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
