[chromium-dev] Re: Why does Chromium on mac have a theme switch UI in the preferences?

2009-08-12 Thread Meok
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

[chromium-dev] Re: Why does Chromium on mac have a theme switch UI in the preferences?

2009-08-12 Thread Avi Drissman
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Meok meok...@gmail.com 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

[chromium-dev] Re: Why does Chromium on mac have a theme switch UI in the preferences?

2009-08-12 Thread Viet-Trung Luu
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

[chromium-dev] Re: Why does Chromium on mac have a theme switch UI in the preferences?

2009-08-12 Thread Peter Kasting
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Avi Drissman a...@chromium.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Meok meok...@gmail.com 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

[chromium-dev] Re: Why does Chromium on mac have a theme switch UI in the preferences?

2009-08-12 Thread Roland Steiner
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

[chromium-dev] Re: Why does Chromium on mac have a theme switch UI in the preferences?

2009-08-12 Thread Meok
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

[chromium-dev] Re: Why does Chromium on mac have a theme switch UI in the preferences?

2009-08-11 Thread Meok
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

[chromium-dev] Re: Why does Chromium on mac have a theme switch UI in the preferences?

2009-08-11 Thread Mohamed Mansour
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 meok...@gmail.com wrote: Just to add my two cents worth. Even though there is a full

[chromium-dev] Re: Why does Chromium on mac have a theme switch UI in the preferences?

2009-08-11 Thread Peter Kasting
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Meok meok...@gmail.com 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

[chromium-dev] Re: Why does Chromium on mac have a theme switch UI in the preferences?

2009-08-11 Thread Meok
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

[chromium-dev] Re: Why does Chromium on mac have a theme switch UI in the preferences?

2009-08-11 Thread PhistucK
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

[chromium-dev] Re: Why does Chromium on mac have a theme switch UI in the preferences?

2009-08-10 Thread Mohamed Mansour
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

[chromium-dev] Re: Why does Chromium on mac have a theme switch UI in the preferences?

2009-08-10 Thread Avi Drissman
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Mohamed Mansour m...@chromium.org 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

[chromium-dev] Re: Why does Chromium on mac have a theme switch UI in the preferences?

2009-08-10 Thread Aaron Boodman
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Avi Drissmana...@google.com 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

[chromium-dev] Re: Why does Chromium on mac have a theme switch UI in the preferences?

2009-08-10 Thread Aaron Boodman
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Steve Vandebogartvand...@google.com 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

[chromium-dev] Re: Why does Chromium on mac have a theme switch UI in the preferences?

2009-08-10 Thread Ben Goodger (Google)
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 Boodmana...@chromium.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:24 AM,

[chromium-dev] Re: Why does Chromium on mac have a theme switch UI in the preferences?

2009-08-10 Thread Peter Kasting
[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

[chromium-dev] Re: Why does Chromium on mac have a theme switch UI in the preferences?

2009-08-10 Thread Aaron Boodman
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Peter Kastingpkast...@google.com 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

[chromium-dev] Re: Why does Chromium on mac have a theme switch UI in the preferences?

2009-08-10 Thread Brian Rakowski
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 a...@google.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Aaron Boodman a...@chromium.org wrote: Incidentally, two other asks: * When

[chromium-dev] Re: Why does Chromium on mac have a theme switch UI in the preferences?

2009-08-10 Thread stourw...@googlemail.com
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

[chromium-dev] Re: Why does Chromium on mac have a theme switch UI in the preferences?

2009-08-10 Thread Aaron Boodman
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Avi Drissmana...@google.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Aaron Boodman a...@chromium.org 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

[chromium-dev] Re: Why does Chromium on mac have a theme switch UI in the preferences?

2009-08-09 Thread Peter Kasting
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Aaron Boodman a...@chromium.org 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

[chromium-dev] Re: Why does Chromium on mac have a theme switch UI in the preferences?

2009-08-09 Thread PhistucK
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 a...@chromium.org wrote: Currently the mac port has a dropdown in the

[chromium-dev] Re: Why does Chromium on mac have a theme switch UI in the preferences?

2009-08-09 Thread PhistucK
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

[chromium-dev] Re: Why does Chromium on mac have a theme switch UI in the preferences?

2009-08-09 Thread PhistucK
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