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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Anand Rangarajan <[email protected]> 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 [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. > > > -- 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.
