+Francis Hi Fred,
Very cool! This is very similar to a concept that Francis and I had when talking with some partners. NI Francis on the bug. Ideally the search could be configurable by the user to change the default and also in the build (in the same manner as we configure the search engine). Peter On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Wilfred Mathanaraj <[email protected]> wrote: > I dont think we want to overcomplicate the process but I understood that > there was a contributor engagement meet-up in Paris last week and some of > that may be relevant for this discussion. > For now I would really NI the UX team and product team for feedback - we > should really not push this into 2.5 but post 2.5 definitely review and > land in master before the next release. > > BR > Wilfred > > --- > FxOS Product Management > Mozilla Corp., UK > > > > > On 6 Oct 2015, at 13:08, Michael Henretty <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well yes, it's almost certainly too late for 2.5. But I don't see any > reason why you can't just keep working on it and eventually land it. > > This does raise an interesting question which has come up before: how does > a contributor, paid staff or not, work on and land a feature in FxOS that > is not on the roadmap? Voting is one method for measuring support, but I'm > not sure we need it. For instance, I rarely vote on anything and just > because something doesn't have votes doesn't mean it's not good enough for > core. If there is a feature that a developer cares enough about to > implement, and nobody thinks it absolutely doesn't belong in FxOS, then by > all means she can keep working on until it's ready to land. In other words > I don't think the Bugzilla process of discussion/reviews/ui-reviews should > be enough. > > On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:55 PM, fred <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Glad you like it! >> >> Actually I'm not sure the process and its very late to ride a feature. To >> land it we need some ui/ux love to refine the icon images etc. And I guess >> with more votes the feature will more likely be considered in next version. >> >> >> BTW, I'd like thanks Ting Yu Lin's help to make the copy/paste api can >> return selected text. With that api I can parse the text and make immediate >> actions possible. >> >> >> Michael Henretty wrote: >> >> This is awesome Fred! I want it. >> >> Why not just ask for UI-review and land it? I guess my question actually >> is, how will voting help here? Is there a criteria for amount of votes >> before UX will consider to include a feature? At the very least, I would >> love to see it as an add-on. But since you already have done the work to >> include it in Gaia, why not just try and put it on the train? >> >> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Fred Lin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U29Xnr8CzxI >>> >>> The prototyping demo shows: >>> >>> 1. when user select a word, an extra 'search' icon is appeared and >>> direct user to the default search provider when user tap this icon. >>> >>> 2. When user select a longer sentence, an extra 'share' icon is appeared >>> and direct user to share text with SMS, Email...etc. >>> >>> The idea is user usually use copy&paste function to accomplish some >>> actions, so why not do it directly on copy&paste menu? >>> With this prototype, user can accomplish main actions without multiple >>> steps (1. copy, 2. open app, 3. paste string, 4. do action) >>> >>> >>> I did some hacks around copy&paste menu and add the search mozactivity >>> in search app to leverage default search providers (so user can change >>> google/DuckDuckgo via search/settings app and effect the search button in >>> copy&paste menu). >>> >>> >>> To extend this idea, we may support wikipedia/google translate search >>> provider with open search api [1], and find out some better way to make the >>> immediate actions more easier to achieve. >>> >>> This prototype feature is not on the roadmap, if you like this feature >>> to be included into FxOS, vote it on bugzilla[2] to gain more interesting. >>> >>> >>> [1] http://www.opensearch.org/Home >>> [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1205650 >>> >>> >>> >>> regards >>> -- >>> Fred >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dev-fxos mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos >>> >>> >> Sent from Firefox OS >> >> > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > >
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