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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

: Unify consistent elements throughout the UI such as colors, margins, padding, spacing and border radii Precision : Stricter adherence to detailed design specs

: 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 Aero



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

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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

status notes Products ` ` Engineering ` ` Security ` ` Privacy ` ` Localization ` ` Accessibility ` ` Quality assurance testing in progress Test Plan User experience ` ` Product marketing ` ` Operations ` `



