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Quicksaver / Puzzle-Toolbars

A Firefox that adds many toolbar choices to fully customize the browser window.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/puzzle-toolbars/
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Allow user to tweak hover hotspot size #40

Closed seascape closed 10 years ago

seascape commented 10 years ago

I currently run Pale Moon, which is more or less FF24 at the moment, to avoid Australis. But I have an Australis Firefox installed too, which I have been continually tweaking to bring it up to my preferred UI standard. My Australis setup is getting close to solid, most recently thanks to this wonderful Barlesque / A Better Firefox Add-on Bar replacement.

I have The Puzzle Piece set to appear when my mouse moves into its hotspot. In my use so far I sometimes find it difficult to move my mouse precisely where it wants it to be, leading to annoying fine-grained "hunting" movements to make it pop up.

In Pale Moon A Better Firefox Add-on Bar still functions, and that seems to have a taller hotspot which makes it easier to activate. Too easy, sometimes, as once in a while its appearance prevents me from clicking on web page links. But at least I'm never hunting and feeling irritated by something that should be easy and instant.

So, I would like to request a numerical setting in the options where we can specify the height of the hotspot. (Perhaps there are other factors too?) That way everyone can balance it between personal ease of use and likelihood of blocking page content.

Quicksaver commented 10 years ago

I understand what you mean, because you can't see exactly where it is it might be difficult to hit it. I won't add a numerical setting (it's very non-user-friendly and kind of a vague setting if you think about it), but I will see about making the location of the puzzle piece more "discoverable".

seascape commented 10 years ago

Cool. Less hunting, more add-on barring. :+1:

Quicksaver commented 10 years ago

I've just uploaded beta version 2b4 (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/the-puzzle-piece/versions/, it will install as "Puzzle Toolbars" as I'm planning a name change) which includes an option to adjust the size of the area reactive to mouse movement. If you could give it a try and let me know what you think I'd appreciate it.