Share extension omits 'Firefox'

[AaronMT]

We should abide by guidelines and use our full application name.

[boek]

@AaronMT good catch!

[Sdaswani]

Yes good catch but won't block Burgundy as we can't get the strings in. This needs immediate triage though if we want to get it in Cobalt. @antlam what's best next steps?

[antlam]

If there's space, we should include Firefox.

Open in Firefox Focus works I think.

CC @mheubusch for sign off!

[mheubusch]

Yes, agree to use Firefox Focus. (Think we cut out Firefox to save space, not for any communication reason).

[antlam]

Quick question before string freeze tomorrow because clearly this is the best time for this 😅 ... but would it be better to name the app Focus? everything in the UI can remain the same

Things to consider:

• Firefox Focus truncates after the app updates because of the blue dot
• "Open in Firefox Focus" is very long and might truncate to obfuscate "Focus" and then only the icon will be the difference teller
• L10N (and UX really) often benefits from brevity (where possible of course)

Just wanted to put that out there because I can't remember why we added Firefox at this moment.

@bbinto for input please! :)

[bbinto]

I believe this is mostly a branding/marketing question.

One thing we all agree on is to be consistent within the OS. In addition, we use "Firefox Focus" as well for Android.

So let's stick to "Firefox Focus".

[Sdaswani]

@bbinto, by 'stick to', you mean change to 'Open in Firefox Focus'? Shouldn't we check how the text fits in the Share Extension first?

[bbinto]

Yes, change it to Open in Firefox Focus, we def. should check first how it looks.

Also, do other apps shorten their app names as well in the share extension menu?

[boek]

Do we have any examples of a language that takes more characters than 'Open in'? I'm not sure about other apps. I think the default behavior truncates the string at a certain point.

[boek]

It also shrinks the text size:

[boek]

Here is 'Open in Firefox Focus' as well

[Sdaswani]

@boek can you try several form factors, e.g., iphone 5?

[AaronMT]

Is the adjective even necessary? I know exactly what to expect when I see or tap 'Twitter' and 'Facebook' in these cases. Focus, in it's current form has narrowly scoped utility. Why not just have 'Firefox Focus' and drop 'Open in'.

[boek]

iPhone 5:

I don't know if it will build for the iPhone 4

[Sdaswani]

Hah no need for the iPhone 4 :).

[antlam]

Is the adjective even necessary?

Good point. System conventions just use the app name if it's up there.

"Open in" was what we wanted to use when we wanted to make this an action I believe. @lime124 @mheubusch thoughts?

[lime124]

Yes, "Open in" should be used when the app is in the Action area. If the app is in the Sharing Extensions area, only the app name is necessary.

Basically - either remove "Open in" OR put the it in the Action area. My preference would be to move it to the Action area.

[Sdaswani]

@boek I wonder if for 3.5 it should be just 'Firefox Focus' then? @lime124 we had it in the action menu but an iPad display issue that seemingly can't be fixed made us move it.

[boek]

@Sdaswani Sounds good to me

[Sdaswani]

@lime124 @antlam @boek has a PR to change the Share extension to say 'Firefox Focus' (and 'Firefox Klar') https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-ios/pull/315/files - we don't need any localizations here, right? In all languages, we just use Firefox Focus - right?

[boek]

@Sdaswani @antlam This no longer needs strings as we are just using the product name correct?

[antlam]

@boek yep. Basically what @lime124 mentioned too - since it sounds like we're leaving this in the Share extension.

[Sdaswani]

@boek this should be closed to - it got into Burgundy, right?

[boek]

Yes