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

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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

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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

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

bug 732583

Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

` {{#set:Feature open issues and risks=` |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

|Feature users and use cases=All Users |Feature 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

|Feature requirements=` |Feature non-goals=` |Feature functional spec=` |Feature ux design=* Windows 7

|Feature implementation plan=` |Feature security review=` |Feature privacy review=` |Feature localization review=` |Feature accessibility review=` |Feature qa review=` |Feature operations review=` |Feature implementation notes=bug 732583 |Feature landing criteria=` }}

Feature details

Priority P1
Rank 4
Theme / Goal `
Roadmap User Experience
Secondary roadmap `
Feature list Desktop
Project `
Engineering team Desktop front-end

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Team status notes

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Security ` `
Privacy ` `
Localization ` `
Accessibility ` `
Quality assurance testing in progress Test Plan
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Product marketing ` `
Operations ` `

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