I believe short-cut key is also related to this issue. Many extensions would just want to be triggered by a short-cut key when users get the hang of it. The use case may be like this: when first installed, user get to know how to use it by manually clicking on browser action. As they use it more, they get familiar with the short-cut key, and they can hide the browser action for once and for all. So, hm, I believe individual browser action hiding would be reasonable.
On Dec 12, 11:50 am, Tim Ker <tim....@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe that users will value their extensions individually, and may > only want their "most used" extensions in the toolbar. > > I think that being able to turn off browser action buttons needs to be > possible for each indiviual browser action. > > Should you enable the user or extension to do change the show/hide > browser actions? > Letting the user control the browser action visibility would make for > a more consistant UI. > Letting the extension change the browser action would probably make > some more interesting extensions available, but we probably want to > avoid the button popping in and out of view, e.g as you get mail, as > this could be annoying (I believe enabled/disabled button are better > here). > > Or perhaps you could look at something similar to the system tray in > windows XP/Vista, where the unused icons disappear are shown/hidden > with an arrow click. > > On Dec 11, 7:49 pm, Possum <ryangal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Please allow the ability to disable individual browser actions if need > > be. If Chrome is planning to add support for right click menus there > > will not be the need for many of them. > > > On Dec 12, 3:08 pm, Aaron Boodman <a...@google.com> wrote: > > > > This has come up several times. > > > > What I am leaning toward is providing a way for users to turn off > > > browser actions if they don't want to see them. That way there is a > > > consistent UI for all extensions. > > > > What do you all think? Would there still be a use case for an > > > extension turning on and off its own browser action in that case? > > > > - a > > > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Tim Ker <tim....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I would like to be able to be able to turn browser actions on and off > > > > via code as well. As there can be many ways to interact with an > > > > extension... and some users don't always want a browser action > > > > cluttering up the google chrome toolbar.... and others do :) > > > > > Perhaps on the initial loading of an extension event would be good to > > > > hook up to. > > > > > On Dec 8, 9:33 pm, Anand Rangarajan <a...@google.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi Aaron, > > > > >> That sounds reasonable, if there is a way to pack a set of related > > > >> extensions. The issue is just > > > >> that many people may want to install multiple ones in one fell swoop. > > > >> One > > > >> option is to just be > > > >> able to have a phantom extension linking to a bunch of related > > > >> extensions. > > > > >> In the case of Gmail, the checker, mailto converter and Send with > > > >> Gmail will > > > >> all be bundled. > > > > >> thanks, > > > >> anand > > > > >> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Aaron Boodman <a...@google.com> wrote: > > > >> > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Anand Rangarajan <a...@google.com> > > > >> > wrote: > > > >> > > Yeah, I know it can be done with pageAction, but this > > > >> > > functionality is a > > > >> > > browserAction because that is > > > >> > > the best to provide the functionality on any page. Specifically, > > > >> > > this > > > >> > > browserAction is to be able to email > > > >> > > the current URL and title from any page to a set of people. It > > > >> > > solves the > > > >> > > common use case of unneeded > > > >> > > drudgery to open a tab, go to gmail, copy and paste the URL to > > > >> > > send to > > > >> > some > > > >> > > people. > > > >> > > But, there is also a content script with this extension which > > > >> > > converts > > > >> > > mailtos to gmail compose URLs. > > > >> > > I want to provide an option to turn off the browserAction since > > > >> > > some > > > >> > people > > > >> > > do not seem to want the > > > >> > > button in their real estate. > > > >> > > I am guessing the answer to this is that it is not possible right > > > >> > > now > > > >> > > without actually dropping the icon > > > >> > > in the manifest itself. > > > > >> > I suggest just having two extensions. These are really two separate > > > >> > features, and the Chrome extensions model is 1 feature per-extension. > > > > >> > - a > > > > > -- > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > > Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. > > > > To post to this group, send email to > > > > chromium-extensi...@googlegroups.com. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > chromium-extensions+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > > For more options, visit this group > > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. To post to this group, send email to chromium-extensi...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to chromium-extensions+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en.
