[UIFe] Please add unity quicklist item for 'new window' and maybe 'new tab'

This debdiff fixes the bug. Kindly sponsor. Thanks!

This is an improved version of the previous debdiff. Changes: Add the quicklist entries on all desktop files, and use @APPNAME@ instead of firefox.

Thanks, removing sponsors as changes to Firefox don't go through the usual sponsoring process

Another debdiff, this one contains the change from Open a new tab -> Open a New Tab (as suggested by David Planella)

Here's why New Import is vital to the usabliity of Unity:

1. Work away on your netbook, have one or more browser widnows open
2. decide to navigate to a new workspace to transition to a different task set
3. navigate to the works space
4. open a browser window

Result:
with no middle button, you can't open the window, if you click the browser you end up going back to the old workspace

This happens to me daily, and is infuriating.

This will need a UI Freeze exception, so we should do it asap to avoid impact there
It may also need a FFE

Bilal - would you mind updating your current patch to just add "Open a New Window" for now? We talked about it on IRC and I think a new window entry makes more sense right now.

We can still keep the request for "Open a New Tab" translations on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/Wanted/FirefoxDesktop though, as it will give us the option of adding the extra item at a later date.

Thanks!

I feel it would be better to have both 'Open a New Tab' and 'Open a New Window' options in the quicklist. What do you say? If you give me the go-ahead I'll make the change on the debdiff, notify dpm, and follow the UIFe procedure.

This is the new debdiff. I am following the UIFe procedure now.

This is harmless enough, so UIFe approved.

However, I wonder if there is any way that these strings could be in a package which already uses gettext, or whether we could add PO files to firefox for translating this?

Hi Martin,

Thanks for the UIFe approval!

The answer to your question is on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/Wanted/FirefoxDesktop . Mozilla packages don't use gettext, and hence its difficult to merge translations for desktop files. Hence, we have to do it manually.

Martin,

We can discuss that at UDS when we figure out the right way to do FIrefox translations :)

bzr commit -m '* Add some missing symlinks in the SDK
  - update debian/firefox-dev.links.in
* Add Hebrew, Slovene, Bengali and updated Catalan translations, plus
  add static quicklist translations for French and Russian
* debian/firefox-*.desktop.in: Add static quicklist item 'Open a New
  Window'. (LP: #741046)' --fixes 'lp:741046'
Committing to: /home/chr1s/src/firefox/4.0/
modified debian/changelog
modified debian/firefox-beta.desktop.in
modified debian/firefox-dev.links.in
modified debian/firefox-final.desktop.in
modified debian/firefox-nightly.desktop.in
modified debian/firefox-unofficial.desktop.in
Committed revision 823.

This bug was fixed in the package firefox - 4.0~rc2+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2

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firefox (4.0~rc2+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2) natty; urgency=low

  [ Chris Coulson <email address hidden> ]
  * Ship a mozilla-plugin.pc and libxul.pc rather than our custom
    firefox-plugin.pc. No other source packages are aware of firefox-plugin
    and this way avoids patching a whole bunch of apps. We now conflict
    with the xulrunner SDK though
    - rename debian/pkgconfig/firefox-plugin.pc.in =>
       debian/pkgconfig/mozilla-plugin.pc.in
    - update debian/pkgconfig/mozilla-plugin.pc.in
    - add debian/pkgconfig/libxul.pc.in
    - add debian/pkgconfig/mozilla-nspr.pc.in
    - update debian/rules
    - update debian/control.pp
  * Add some missing symlinks in the SDK
    - update debian/firefox-dev.links.in
  * Add Asturian, Bengali, Croatian, Danish, Galician, Hebrew, Kurdish,
    Lithuanian, Romanian, Slovene, Uyghur and Ukrainian, and updated
    Catalan and French translations, plus add static quicklist translations
    for Chinese, Dutch, French, Hungarian, Italian and Russian
    - update debian/firefox-*.desktop.in
  * Update globalmenu-extension code to 0.6.1. Pressing Alt shows the menu
    now

  [ Bilal Akhtar <email address hidden> ]
  * debian/firefox-*.desktop.in: Add static quicklist item 'Open a New
    Window'. (LP: #741046)
 -- Chris Coulson <email address hidden> Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:54:51 +0100

I guess its time to add a quicklist item for 'Open a New Tab' as well?

Its already up for translations, and many many translators have already translated both those strings. Thoughts?

I don't see the quicklist in Oneiric, maybe because I've updated from Natty?

It's not in Precise either.

It has been requested to include a quicklist option to "Open a new Tab". However I think this is redundant since you can do this from File->New Tab and also from the new tab button present always. Hence I suggest the following quicklist for firefox.

Open a new window
Open firefox in Safe Mode
Switch between Private/Normal mode
--------------------------------------------------------
Firefox Web Browser
--------------------------------------------------------
Unlock from Launcher
Quit

Please file a new bug rather than commenting on an already fixed one.

Or not. We don't want a new-tab entry :)