> > * There are currently 6 checkboxes for sync "engines". >
> * Thom's got a bug where we want to sync search engine preferences - which > ends up wanting to sync the engines themselves to do a sane thing. We're > thinking that maybe we can maybe abuse the "preferences" collection for > that, but it still leaves the UX - do we need to have a UI that > differentiates "preferences" from "search engines and related preferences"? > I think "Preferences" is a fine place for this, does not require extra explanation. The UI for it is definitely within the Preferences section. > * Light-weight themes already abuse the preferences engine - they carry > the pref name, but not the themes themselves. There's already a hack to > special case the setting of the pref name using the LWTheme API, but doing > this right also looks like the search engines above WRT also syncing the > themes. > Oh, I assumed all themes were synced under "Add-ons". Perhaps I'm not understanding something. > auto-fill seems a similar "scope-creep" problem - and one we will keep > hitting as we improve what can be synced. I doubt we want 10+ checkboxes > and I'm not sure we can group all this stuff under a generic "Preferences". > Maybe call it "Firefox Settings" and stick with about:config for advanced > users? Maybe re-think the prefs UI entirely? Something else? > > rfeeley, WDYT? You are correct. I don't want to add addtional checkboxes. I think the approach to add little-understood items like add-ons data to about:config makes total sense. As far as form data, I think we can include it with passwords. In our recent card sort, 42% of users grouped together Form Autofill Options and Saved Logins & Passwords. https://www.optimalworkshop.com/optimalsort/x4jm4zoj/winning/shared-results/s63v8ih8h5euj07yjf3n2k4k6648by47#/t/analysisTools/similarityMatrix The UI we're going to soon be testing for prefs will look something like this. [image: Inline image 1] I modified it from the current prototype which we'll be polishing and testing with users. It's based on some great research we did that seems to make users 30% more successful at finding specific preferences (with 8 popular tasks). We tested our current prefs, then ran a card sort experiment to see how users would group all the prefs, and then we tested again, and now we're finishing and testing this prototype. Take a peek (knowing it is a WIP) http://people.mozilla.org/~mliang/Preferences/#general Ryan Feeley Sync & Accounts UX Mozilla Toronto
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