Hello all, 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.
-Bill On Apr 23, 2014, at 6:27 PM, Jonas Sicking <[email protected]> wrote: >> Both Apple and Google allow developers to set short and long names on their >> stores, so there is some precedent here. From the Marketplace POV, I'd like >> to >> continue to keep the manifest as the source of truth so my first reaction >> would >> be to add an optional "short_name" attribute to the manifest which would be >> used >> on the device in icon grids, but for places where space wasn't an issue >> (both on >> the device and on the Marketplace) we would use the current "name" field. > > This sounds good to me. I like the idea that we can use the long name > in the settings app on the device, while still using the short name in > the icon grid. > > We'd likely want to display both the short name and the long name to > the user in the install prompt though. _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
