That's a good idea and should please just about everyone. The gallery
could simply employ a cookie to remember the last 5 etc. sites you
clicked on. That way there is no privacy concern and no security
concern as nothing gets passed from the browser. Do that and add a
custom search engine to the t
Just to throw in another suggestion (that I hope hasn't come up or been
implied so far):
The way I see it, the themes you visited/installed are part of your history,
so why not spruce up the history page and include visited themes there
directly, with "Theme" as a semantic annotation. In this way
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Avi Drissman wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Meok wrote:
>
>> I guess it shouldn't be
>> too hard then to pass that info onto the gallery page and keep
>> everything online.
>
>
> I think that would be a bad idea even if it weren't too hard. What theme
I basically agree, though I have a UI concern -- having a button in the
prefs dialog which leads you to a web page is a bit strange since, while
the dialog box isn't modal, I bet most users don't realize that. Would
the button pop up a new browser window? (In front of the dialog?) Or
would it
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Meok wrote:
> I guess it shouldn't be
> too hard then to pass that info onto the gallery page and keep
> everything online.
I think that would be a bad idea even if it weren't too hard. What theme I'm
using is no one's business.
When I was thinking about a "web
You weren't totally on point but you shed some very needed light. I
thought that it was easier and more secure to use the internal page,
but you're saying it's actually not.
In any case, it's not a problem because the latest trunk build
remembers the last theme you had installed. I guess it shoul
I have not read through the entire message, so forgive me if I am saying
something unrelated and that was already answered here -It seems like there
might be security issues with loading web resources in the internal pages,
since internal pages seem to have a lot of power and privileges and the web
I'm all in favor of Chromium using web interfaces instead of local
code. As I've said before in a thread on Chromium-Discuss, if Google
is creating a browser to maximize the potential of the web, and
encourage web developers to make more complex applications, then the
said Google browser should be
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Meok wrote:
> Just to add my two cents worth. Even though there is a full resource,
> I still see a need for users to be able to keep their favorites easily
> accessible. It;s the same philosophy of having a New Tab Page even
> though you can pull back your most v
I kinda like that idea, I personally don't know what directions themes is
going. It seems like a hidden project that will just surprise us one day.
-- Mohamed Mansour
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Meok wrote:
>
> Just to add my two cents worth. Even though there is a full resource,
> I still
Just to add my two cents worth. Even though there is a full resource,
I still see a need for users to be able to keep their favorites easily
accessible. It;s the same philosophy of having a New Tab Page even
though you can pull back your most visited sites from the bookmarks.
I think it would hav
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Avi Drissman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Aaron Boodman wrote:
>>
>> > Incidentally, two other asks:
>> > * When "installing" a theme, give the user a way to switch back to the
>> > previous theme (e.g. an infobar). We currently have an option to sw
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:25 AM,
stourw...@googlemail.com wrote:
> As a user I don't mind going back to the gallery each time I want to
> change theme (and my mood will make me change themes regularly), but
> what is frustrating is that everytime I go back to one that I've tried
> in the past it
As a user I don't mind going back to the gallery each time I want to
change theme (and my mood will make me change themes regularly), but
what is frustrating is that everytime I go back to one that I've tried
in the past it redownloads the file again rather than using the .crx
that is already pre
Yes, I wholeheartedly agree that these are gallery features. We should
remove them from options/prefs panels.
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Avi Drissman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Aaron Boodman wrote:
>
>> > Incidentally, two other asks:
>> > * When "installing" a theme, give
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Aaron Boodman wrote:
> > Incidentally, two other asks:
> > * When "installing" a theme, give the user a way to switch back to the
> > previous theme (e.g. an infobar). We currently have an option to switch
> > back to the default theme, which is also useful, in d
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Aaron Boodman wrote:
> I think that building this into the gallery makes a lot of sense. And
> I realized that by "preview" you all might mean "a picture of what
> this looks like", before you click anything. Similar to what is on the
> current gallery pages.
P
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Peter Kasting wrote:
> [Edit: right as I was going to send this, I see you seem to be thinking
> along similar lines.]
> You're right that a dropdown with the names of every theme the user has ever
> used is both unwieldy and unhelpful. How about this:
> We repla
How would this be done if installing a theme doesn't require any
authentication? If we are going this approach, it means the user should be
logged in to manage his/her own themes? I like this approach as well... but
why not just do this:
Create a chrome://themes/ page where we asynchronously fetch
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Peter Kasting wrote:
> Or, instead of building this list in locally, we could build it in to the
> themes gallery. When you go there these MRU themes (and the default) are
> right on the first page. This can also help when you're trying to set up
> another machi
[Edit: right as I was going to send this, I see you seem to be thinking
along similar lines.]
You're right that a dropdown with the names of every theme the user has ever
used is both unwieldy and unhelpful. How about this:
We replace the Options buttons with a page with the 5 MRU themes (perhap
Seems like all of this can be done on the page. The nice property of
the page is that there's room to show a preview of the theme, which in
many cases is more memorable than the name.
-Ben
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Aaron Boodman wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Steve Vandeboga
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Steve Vandebogart wrote:
> Undoubtedly, there will be hundreds of themes, finding the same one
> you were using last week before you decided to try a different one
> will be a daunting task. From a usability perspective, it seems to me
> that keeping around a smal
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Avi Drissman wrote:
> Right now there's no real control over themes. Once they're installed,
> they're permanently installed; there's no easy way to remove them
We should completely drop the concept of theme "installation". We can
do this by changing the language
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Mohamed Mansour wrote:
> I have been told that once you installed a new theme, the old theme will
> not be archived (stored on the system), so switching themes would be harder
> when the CL comes in.
>
That isn't the case today; that may be the case in the future
When people change themes regularly, I believe their intension is to try out
themes. When "theme preview" is going to come in, that would be simpler. A
person isn't going to change themes every day, if they want to change
themes, they could just goto the UI and change to any theme they please.
I be
But people like to change themes periodically and also, to choose from
themes they have already installed and new themes, you (currently) cannot
incorporate both of them in the theme gallery.
I saw that happening with regular, non techy users - all of the time (not in
Chrome, obviously, since they
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Peter Kasting wrote:
> FWIW, I'd prefer if all the ports have this.
> There are three reasons for this, one of them silly:
> (1) Shows themes you've gotten from sources other than the gallery (I don't
> know if this is possible at this moment, but it will be someday
I meant it would be nice as a temporary solution, until a chrome://themes
page or something comes up.And per your wondering - when you mouse
over\select a theme with the keyboard arrows (but no mouse click, nor Enter
key press is made), a preview can be shown, or the whole theme can change.
That wo
It would be nice for the UI for "installing" a theme to be the same as
for choosing it again. Maybe the themes directory could have an
"already installed" section, although I think the fact that I've
installed a theme and moved on to another means I'm less interested in
using it again.
A dropdown
Seeing as there is currently no UI for it other than actually installing a
theme again, I would say the theme selection dropdown is kind of a needed
element.
☆PhistucK
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 02:42, Aaron Boodman wrote:
>
> Currently the mac port has a dropdown in the preferences that allows
>
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Aaron Boodman wrote:
> Currently the mac port has a dropdown in the preferences that allows
> you to switch between themes that happen to be installed.
>
> None of the other ports have this, and I think it should be removed
> from mac. All it allows you to do is sw
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