agregore://settings extension

[av8ta]

🤔 A browser UI for configuring settings in general like agregore://settings might be useful. Kinda like how chrome://flags works.

Originally posted by @RangerMauve in https://github.com/AgregoreWeb/agregore-browser/issues/196#issuecomment-1173155548

An extension could be bundled with agregore that provides a ui for agregore settings with routes for protocol settings.

• agregore://settings - for general agregore settings
• agregore://settings/<protocol> - for protocol specific settings, e.g. agregore://settings/ssb

I imagine the simplest solution would be for the extension to write to ~/.agregorerc

[av8ta]

We could just prototype this in app/pages for now? Just for settings.

[RangerMauve]

Yeah for sure.

I think a good first step would be the following:

• Find a way to only allow agregore://settings to load up in the top frame, and not in regular protocol handlers.
• Find a way to listen on messages from agregore://settings for updating the config file. Make sure to have check so that other origins/pages cannot call this API.
• Have a rudimentary text editing thing with the current JSON values for the config file as well as a save button to update the .agregorerc file.