I just want to state once again my thought about this: why not to let user decide? If a user don't like the extension nothing prevents them to remove it or complain to authors to make a tweak. The current trend seems to limit not only developers (maybe to force them think more about UI which is good) but users too. The current UI makes some things impossible, e.g. I need at least two buttons (browser actions), I spent nights thinking how to make usable UI with only one button but failed. Sure the buttons can be placed into popup but then user should make _two_ clicks. Making hundreds clicks clearly shows the difference. Another problem is shortcut. As long-time Emacs user I simply can't live without shortcuts. Just imagine that you e.g. can do touch typing and want to use your custom spell-checker or sent last five words through IM, whatever. And you'll have to spend seconds to reach mouse, move pointer to the right position and make TWO clicks :). You ask extension developer to set a shorrcut for every of five operations the extension can perform but he answers that "sorry, it's limitation of existing API, I can't do anything with that".
On 30 ноя, 07:24, Aaron Boodman <[email protected]> wrote: > It is a purposeful limitation. > > The idea is that since extensions are so easy to install in > Chromium/Google Chrome, that developers should tend to do one > extension per-feature, rather than putting a bunch of features into > one extension. This helps users avoid the situation where they only > like one feature of an extension, but to get it, have to have their UI > cluttered with a bunch of other features they don't care about. > > It is possible to change the browser action icon on a per-tab basis > (see the tabId parameter of, > eg,http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/browserAction.html#method-se...). > Or you could use a popup to create more functionality in the browser > action depending on the state of the extension or the current tab. > > HTH, > > - a > > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Edwin Khodabakchian > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > I am trying to add a page action to the feedly extension to allow > > users to add new sites to their feedly and I get: > > "Could not load extension from '...'. An extension cannot have both a > > page action and a browser action. > > > Page actions and browser actions seems to be totally orthogonal things > > so I have a hard time understanding this error message. Is this a > > temporary limitation or a conceptual one? Is there any way to work > > around this? > > > Thanks, > > Edwin > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Chromium-extensions" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en.
