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• Launchpad Entry: desktop-lucid-firefox-kde-integration

• Created: 2009-11-17

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• Packages affected: firefox

Summary

KDE integration is still suboptimal in ubuntu; work and patches were done by opensuse. We should:

• evaluate what was done for opensuse (did this ever go into production)
• match that with what was discussed for the intrepid (see: firefox-kde-integration-intrepid)
• gather/document the patches made by opensuse
• check upstream status on patches
• evaluate and discuss trademark implications with mozilla
• produce PoC packages for consumption
• decide what can be done

Release Note

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Rationale

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User stories

Assumptions

Design

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Implementation

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UI Changes

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Code Changes

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Migration

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• data migration, if any
• redirects from old URLs to new ones, if any
• how users will be pointed to the new way of doing things, if necessary.

Test/Demo Plan

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This need not be added or completed until the specification is nearing beta.

Unresolved issues

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BoF agenda and discussion

Gobby document: evaluate-firefox-kde-integration-lucid

• Firefox Installer
  • Hide Installer Package after Install (no display setting in config)
  • Remove package after successful install
    • divert
    • purge
  • Fix seeds to be a recommends and not depends
• Gvfs (or some G* pkg) - mime types unsupported if not installed
• SUSE Patches - need to investigate how to integrate these

  • (http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/FirefoxIntegration) Screencast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCt6BzFiDts&feature=player_embedded

  • LP for possible investigation: ppa:debfx/firefox-kde
  • KDE File dialog
  • KDE Mime type integration

  • KDE icon mapping (we get this currently through QtCurve)

  • RSS Feed support (akregator)
  • Notification system (KNotify?)
  • Set as default Wallpaper was removed.. can it work in kde 4.4 Need to best determine how to detect which env/session is running (Gnome/KDE)

    Qt relevant code: http://tinyurl.com/y98wd76 Summary: test window manager, then DESKTOP_SESSION var, then GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID

Action:

• apachelogger committed a fix for uninstalling the installer (bug 439431)
• Look into reinstalling after firefox is removed
• Explore options for reducing vertical space taken for netbooks (fonts, bookmark/tab bar)
• Investigate D-Bus intefaces cmd/availability to query for KDE ver (set as wallpaper issue)
• Setting default browser (XDG maybe - Gnome/KDE may need patching)

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