I think a button on the interface would do nicely. Then when clicked, it will unroll the toolbars by default to 5 (15% browser-height, rounding up to the nearest whole toolbar height) It could also be resized simply by dragging the bottom. (auto-snaps to toolbar height, of course)
But what kind of button is another question, the wrench is taken, so that ones out. I guess you could create an actual simplistic toolbar: a line (or 2) at the top showing a couple hammers hanging from it? It would fit in with simplistic icon-styling. But the choice to also have a toolbar always showing should be there too, with the cycle button as you mentioned. This should solve the major problems with toolbars i think. It is all nicely condensed to save space and not end up creating Toolbar Hell. On Jun 20, 9:11 pm, Meok <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. I'm impatiently waiting for Chrome to support extensions so > that I can port my conduit toolbar over to Chrome. I'm itching to > promote my toolbar and get more users, but if I do that now, I have to > promote IE or Firefox in the process. > > Anyway, I was wondering what the community thought about toolbars and > Chrome. > > Chrome is supposed to be a minimalistic browser, but average users > often get talked into or tricked into installing a lot of toolbars, > and then they call tech guys like me asking how their browser got so > bloated. I go to several clients and see their internet explorer > interface taking up have of the screen because of toolbars. > > Do you think Chrome should implement a measure to restrict the > interface to one toolbar at a time? They could put a small button on > the toolbar strip to cycle between the installed toolbars, giving the > user the ability to specify their preferred order. > > What do you think? Also, do you think toolbars in Chrome should have > separate search boxes, or should the toolbar search be consolidated > into the omnibar? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
