A notification should indicate Firefox needs to be restarted after Launchpad plugins installation

[Fabián Rodríguez]

Binary package hint: firefox-launchpad-plugin

Launchpad plugins as any Firefox extension need Firefox to be restarted to be visible.

An Ubuntu notification should advise to restart Firefox after this package installation.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: lpia
Date: Tue Sep 29 17:23:17 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: firefox-launchpad-plugin 0.4
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_CA.UTF-8
 LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.34-lpia
SourcePackage: firefox-launchpad-plugin
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-lpia i686

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

requesting restart is something most extensions would need. we should put general logic in mozilla-devscripts at some point.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

+1
The magic should be definitively done by mozilla-devscripts. Any idea, how to implement this? postinst?

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

yes something like what dh_installinit etc. do.

but definitly needs some discussion up-front where to put/touch the file that indicates that an app needs to be restarted.

At best it would be a path guessable by the appid as that is how we could easily trigger notification in the right apps.