Andrew Sutherland <mailto:[email protected]>
2014 July 29 at 18:35
Being an IMAP-supporting email app requires being a privileged app. It
seems like it's not currently possible to easily install privileged
apps that are under development on Firefox desktop. Is there a way to
accomplish this or open bugs to follow?
Folks have done this with hacks in the past. I'm unsure about the
current state of the art, so I'm cc:ing Marco, who may know (especially
since he's done it with the Gaia email app!).
As for bugs, the most relevant one is 987848
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=987848>, which is about
enabling you to connect devtools to a desktop app from the Web IDE (née
App Manager).
The discussion in that bug assumes the app is already installed, but
surely Web IDE integration would also include support for installing an
app. That may want to be tracked in a different bug, however. cc: jryans
in case he knows of a more relevant bug.
Context: discussion on the email.js mailing list about making the
whiteout.io email app work on both Firefox OS and Firefox desktop and
some investigation results that conclude it's at least not obvious:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/emailjs/x9xGu2xHrbE/D-N6z7u8QRUJ.
There's also interest from the Gaia email app developers in making a
different email UI but reusing the Gaia email app's backend.
That'd be swell, and we need to make this easier. Your
thoughts/bugs/etc. are most welcome!
-myk
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