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Noitidart / Profilist

ff-addon: Profile manager for Australis
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profilist/?src=github
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When list of profiles excceeds height of screen handle it in some creative way #24

Open Noitidart opened 9 years ago

Noitidart commented 9 years ago

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profilist/reviews/610130/

This idea is by burann from AMO reviews section:

Great add-on, it's very useful. But if I have more than 20 profiles, I can not scroll the list to reach the last ones as they are cropped. I suggest that you shorten the profiles list and add a search box with autocomplete feature.

How do I reply to the message below? I obly see the "Report this review" link.

I think. scroll bar and wheel button scrolling are both inconvenient. Opening a new tab looking similar to about:home page showing a caterorized list of available profiles would be much more convenient than a poping up menu. And a quick search box will be in its place.

I've just noticed an issue: I can not start a nen copy of FF linked to another profile from the command line: "firefox -p Profile1" - it just re-opens the window with the current profile.

Noitidart commented 9 years ago

Maybe allow user to just start typing when menu is expanded and it will filter like when you just start typing in linux.

I don't know. This thing needs thinking through. Back burner for now though because I feel alphabetizing the profile names will help him somewhat. The problem is what about the profiles that are cut off.

Noitidart commented 9 years ago

I'm thinking a scrollbar like this is always visible if exceeds screen height (pretend in pic its screen height) and on hover it becomes solid fill. With DOMWheel support of course.

Also typing while mousenter'ed over stack it should filter, it should show hovering typed field like tab groups does but dont show ugly textfield show something nice. Pressing escape will clear out the filter and block the default action of hiding popup. If not filter shown then of course esc should do default action of hide popup.

if the typing is the start of a word show a opacity .5 suggestion, pressing tab should accept it and arrow keys should toggle through other things that start with it (like command line/shell tabbing with mkdir)

Noitidart commented 9 years ago

Working on implementing: as user types it shadow highlights the portion in the label and as its found it lights up with blue colored shadow behind it. Non-matches are hidden. If no matches at all, then it shows No results for 'search term'

Here is bad mock up. Imagine the other things around (except the top most) are hidden:

Disucssion on solution: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28637649/text-shadow-in-porition-of-text-label-xul-xbl