Our current design strongly discourages install scripts from showing any UI alerts or such, because they interfere with trying to package multiple installs in various ways (triggered from a "Smart Update" site, used in the native installs, etc.). With trigger callbacks websites *could* display status themselves, but apparently many do not. They also could not do so if the user just clicks on a link in a directory listing. Errors *are* written into the install log, but users do not know to look there. That's mainly useful for support purposes. When an install is handled by the nsXPInstallManager (so we know it's not in the UI-less install wizard world) we should give some sort of status to the user, at least in the error case. Even in the success case some folks would like positive feedback, although others don't want to have to deal with the extra click that would be required. Need UI/UE help designing what kind of feedback would be acceptable and effective. This is especially tricky in the multiple install case.

reassigning to David

Reassigning QA Contact to Grace.

Before anyone goes off and implements this let's get a design spec. If we switch to using the standard download dialog for the downloading part (another RFE) we could get more creative on our own dialog such as showing which install is in progress and what it's status is. Or we could simply pop up an alert at the end witht he status for all installs, maybe skipping that step if they were all successful. Whether we want to leave room in the design for future signature information is another fundamental decision that will have to be made first.

This will fall out of the embedding work I think, taking.

Resetting milestone of all nsbeta1-bugs, only nsbeta1+ bugs should have a target milestone.

Resetting milestone, only nsbeta1+ bugs can have a milestone on them, these are niminated, but not yet plussed.

only nsbeta1+ bugs can have milestones, resetting to ---

Landed embeddable XPInstall

verified all platforms- 4/1 builds error status displayed on UI