Firefox/Features/Theme Refinement and Evolution (Australis)
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Status
| Theme Refinement and Evolution (Australis) | |
| Stage | Shipped |
| Status | Complete |
| Release target | Firefox 29 |
| Health | OK |
| Status note | In stabilization |
Team
| Product manager | Asa Dotzler |
| Directly Responsible Individual | Stephen Horlander |
| Lead engineer | ` |
| Security lead | Curtis Koenig |
| Privacy lead | ` |
| Localization lead | ` |
| Accessibility lead | ` |
| QA lead | Paul Silaghi, Cornel Ionce |
| UX lead | Stephen Horlander |
| Product marketing lead | ` |
| Operations lead | ` |
| Additional members | Matthew Noorenberghe, Blair McBride, Jared Wein |
Open issues/risks
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Stage 1: Definition
1. Feature overview
Firefox 4 has established a strong visual foundation with the theme/UI refresh. Going forward we can incrementally build on that foundation focusing on consistency, precision and refinement.
This feature falls primarily in the Experience category (from the "Discover, Experience, and Connect" vision statement.)
- Consistency: Unify consistent elements throughout the UI such as colors, margins, padding, spacing and border radii
- Precision: Stricter adherence to detailed design specs
- Refinement: Evolve and polish the existing UI
Major Changes
- All Platforms
- Curved tabs
- Remove tab affordance from background tabs
- Separate Bookmark Star from locationBar and merge with Bookmarks Menu item
- Updated Panel Based Application Menu and Customization Mode
- Windows (All)
- Draw entire window frame including Caption Buttons
- Windows XP
- Custom window frame style for all default themes
Changes
- All Platforms
- Unify the interface to include consistent border-radii, dimensions, spacing, margins, icons and color palette
- Refine all aspects of the existing UI
- Update In-Content UI Styles
2. Users & use cases
All Users
3. Dependencies
- Implement window frame in XUL – bug 590945
- Tabs in titlebar support for OSX – bug 625989
- Ability to manipulate window controls for OSX
- Create a plan for addressing Linux platform limitations
4. Requirements
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Non-goals
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Stage 2: Design
5. Functional specification
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6. User experience design
- Windows 7
Stage 3: Planning
7. Implementation plan
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8. Reviews
Security review
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Privacy review
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Localization review
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Accessibility
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Quality Assurance review
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Operations review
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Stage 4: Development
9. Implementation
Stage 5: Release
10. Landing criteria
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Feature details
| Priority | P1 |
| Rank | 4 |
| Theme / Goal | ` |
| Roadmap | User Experience |
| Secondary roadmap | ` |
| Feature list | Desktop |
| Project | ` |
| Engineering team | Desktop front-end |
Team status notes
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| Products | ` | ` |
| Engineering | ` | ` |
| Security | ` | ` |
| Privacy | ` | ` |
| Localization | ` | ` |
| Accessibility | ` | ` |
| Quality assurance | testing in progress | Test Plan |
| User experience | ` | ` |
| Product marketing | ` | ` |
| Operations | ` | ` |
