User talk:Torisugari

Application Name Paranoia

Situation

Mozilla builds have 2 values to set application name, MOZ_APP_NAME and MOZ_APP_DISPLAYNAME.

• MOZ_APP_NAME is a internal name. typically lower-cased string e.g. "firefox".
• MOZ_APP_DISPLAYNAME is a user-visible name. tipically title-cased string e.g. "Firefox".

Use Cases

	Firefox 2.0	Firefox 3.0	Nightly (1.9)	Debian Iceweasel 2.0
MOZ_APP_NAME	firefox	firefox	firefox	firefox
MOZ_APP_DISPLAYNAME	Firefox	Firefox	Minefield	Iceweasel
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nsXREAppData::name	Firefox (hardcoded)	Firefox (hardcoded)	Firefox (hardcoded)	Firefox (hardcoded)
nsXREAppData::vendor	Mozilla (hardcoded)	Mozilla (hardcoded)	Mozilla (hardcoded)	Mozilla (hardcoded)
Executable Name (unix)	firefox-bin (hardcoded)	firefox-bin (MOZ_APP_NAME)	firefox-bin (MOZ_APP_NAME)	firefox-bin (hardcoded)
UA String	MOZ_APP_DISPLAYNAME	MOZ_APP_DISPLAYNAME	MOZ_APP_DISPLAYNAME	MOZ_APP_DISPLAYNAME
Archive Package Name	MOZ_APP_NAME	MOZ_APP_NAME	MOZ_APP_NAME	iceweasel (hardcoded)
Installer Package Name	MOZ_APP_NAME	MOZ_APP_NAME	MOZ_APP_NAME	(iceweasel (hardcoded))
MacOSX (.app) Name	MOZ_APP_DISPLAYNAME	MOZ_APP_DISPLAYNAME	MOZ_APP_DISPLAYNAME	(MOZ_APP_DISPLAYNAME)
Windows DDE (installer)	Firefox (hardcoded)	Firefox (hardcoded)	Firefox (hardcoded)	(Firefox (hardcoded))
XRemote (-a APPNAME)	firefox (nsXREAppData::name + ToLowerCases)	firefox (nsXREAppData::name + ToLowerCases)	firefox (nsXREAppData::name + ToLowerCases)	firefox (nsXREAppData::name + ToLowerCases)
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Default Profile (script)	~/.mozilla/firefox (hardcoded)	~/.mozilla/firefox (hardcoded)	~/.mozilla/firefox (hardcoded)	~/.mozilla/firefox (hardcoded)
Default Profile (Directory Service)	~/.mozilla/firefox (nsXREAppData::vender, nsXREAppData::name)	~/.mozilla/firefox (nsXREAppData::vender, nsXREAppData::name)	~/.mozilla/firefox (nsXREAppData::vender, nsXREAppData::name)	~/.mozilla/firefox (nsXREAppData::vender, nsXREAppData::name)

Proposal

Actually, the browser needs 3 names, that is, "firefox", "Minefield" and "Firefox" (See "Nightly" in the above table), respecitively MOZ_APP_NAME, MOZ_APP_DISPLAYNAME and nsXREAppData::name. So I'd like to suggest to add a new flag MOZ_APP_BRANDNAME as below.

Proposed Build Configs (Pink is what's new)

	Nightly (proposal)
MOZ_APP_NAME	firefox
MOZ_APP_DISPLAYNAME	Firefox
MOZ_APP_BRANDNAME	Minefield
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nsXREAppData::name	MOZ_APP_DISPLAYNAME
Executable Name	MOZ_APP_NAME
UA String	MOZ_APP_BRANDNAME
Archive Package Name	MOZ_APP_NAME
Installer Package Name	MOZ_APP_NAME
MacOSX (.app) Name	MOZ_APP_DISPLAYNAME (Minefield -> Firefox)
Windows DDE (installer)	MOZ_APP_DISPLAYNAME
XRemote (-a APPNAME)	nsXREAppData::name + ToLowerCases

Proposal2, more backwards compatible (Pink is what's new)

	Nightly (proposal2)
MOZ_APP_NAME	firefox
MOZ_APP_DISPLAYNAME	Minefield
MOZ_APP_TITLENAME	Firefox
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nsXREAppData::name	MOZ_APP_TITLENAME
Executable Name	MOZ_APP_NAME
UA String	MOZ_APP_DISPLAYNAME
Archive Package Name	MOZ_APP_NAME
Installer Package Name	MOZ_APP_NAME
MacOSX (.app) Name	MOZ_APP_TITLENAME (Minefield -> Firefox)
Windows DDE (installer)	MOZ_APP_TITLENAME
XRemote (-a APPNAME)	nsXREAppData::name + ToLowerCases