midbrowser hildonization tracker bug

[cwong1]

The toplevel window need to be hildonized. This should fix the window-title not being updated on the "HOME" area on the top of the hildon desktop.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

We already have code in the nsHildonXEventService component that explicitly sets the gdk_window title - much like the original libhildon API does.

Maybe we need to redo that everytime when the window becomes topmost?

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

Please outline which hildonization features are missing and what they are supposed to do.

Thanks,
  - Alexander

[cwong1 (carl-wong)]

So far there are 2 things that is visible:

  1. The title bar is not set correctly when we visit other page.
  2. The menu font and the ">" doesn't match other hildon app.
  3. When an application is loaded, you should see a popup
      window on the top right saying "Appname - Loading". We are
      seeing this with Midbrowser. Try gcalc, you will see what
      I meant. This may or may not have to do with the fact that
      the window is hildonized. Could be just a setting in the
      .desktop file (may be).

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

OK, thanks. A few more questions:

  1. The title bar is not set correctly when we visit other page.

How does it read atm? and how should it read (e.g. when going to http://www.ubuntu.com) ?

  2. The menu font and the ">" doesn't match other hildon app.

This is most likely not a hildon specific feature. Its just that firefox currently doesn't render arrows in gtk theme style. It looks like it doesn't use gtk to determine how to render the error; anyway, we need to look into the code to be sure. Once we know the cause, we probably will know the right answer.

  3. When an application is loaded, you should see a popup
      window on the top right saying "Appname - Loading". We are
      seeing this with Midbrowser. Try gcalc, you will see what
      I meant. This may or may not have to do with the fact that
      the window is hildonized. Could be just a setting in the
      .desktop file (may be).

the .desktop file approach sounds reasonable. In case its really a hildon feature, we can probably implement it in moz hildon component, but please try to figure out if .desktop file needs to be fixed.
 - Alexander

[cwong1 (carl-wong)]

1. For the title, the browser looks at the html page and take whatever is in <title></title> and display that in the title bar. We should do the same and display that in the "HOME" area. By the way if you visit http://www.ubuntu.com, you will see "Ubuntu Home Page | Ubuntu - Mozilla FireFox" in the title area.

2. I would appreciate it if you can look into gtk theme.

3. I will look into the .desktop.

-Carl

[cwong1 (carl-wong)]

Asac,

Another item needs some attention:

  * We need to raise the Midbrowser Window to the forefront when user invoke the
     brwoser or from an external link.

I tried using XRaiseWindow in XRemoteClient.cpp's SendComandLine and it didn't work.
Please take a look at it.

Thanks,
Carl

[cwong1 (carl-wong)]

It looks like the title bar problem is in the Marguee Top Panel Plguin. I have created a simple test case and reported it to the rightful owner.

-Carl