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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[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 > > > 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.
