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zyphlar / freshbooks-resizer

This Chrome extension lets you easily minimize the Freshbooks Timesheet timer window.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/timer-resizer-for-freshbo/dollgklkenojadekccfhjfaogalfmgem/
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Feature request: collapse timer to button on browser toolbar #1

Open mrtorrent opened 10 years ago

mrtorrent commented 10 years ago

First of all, nice simple extension -- very glad to finally find one for the Freshbooks timer!

This might be beyond the scope of what you want to do, but I'd love to be able to collapse the timer even further -- to a button on the browser toolbar.

This isn't just about saving screen space. The timer window always gets lost behind my other windows, so I forgot to start or stop it. Because I work in Chrome most of the time, though, an extension button could be persistently visible across all the browser windows.

Ideally, the button would give an indication of whether the timer is running or not. Even cooler would be to remind the user periodically when the timer is running, either with a small but attention-getting animation in the button, or a bigger, uglier separate Chrome desktop notification.

Clicking on the button would bring up the timer window pretty much as-is, so the user can enter the usual info and start/stop/log.

Just a thought!

zyphlar commented 10 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion! I don't have time to work on this any time soon, but this is open-source so anyone can contribute -- first coder to submit a pull request wins!

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 11:27 AM, mrtorrent notifications@github.comwrote:

First of all, nice simple extension -- very glad to finally find one for the Freshbooks timer!

This might be beyond the scope of what you want to do, but I'd love to be able to collapse the timer even further -- to a button on the browser toolbar.

This isn't just about saving screen space. The timer window always gets lost behind my other windows, so I forgot to start or stop it. Because I work in Chrome most of the time, though, an extension button could be persistently visible across all the browser windows.

Ideally, the button would give an indication of whether the timer is running or not. Even cooler would be to remind the user periodically when the timer is running, either with a small but attention-getting animation in the button, or a bigger, uglier separate Chrome desktop notification.

Clicking on the button would bring up the timer window pretty much as-is, so the user can enter the usual info and start/stop/log.

Just a thought!

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/zyphlar/freshbooks-resizer/issues/1 .

mrtorrent commented 10 years ago

I'd love to do it when I can find the time to learn about developing Chrome extensions. I suspect that won't be soon, though, so just wanted to put this request out there in case it inspires anyone else! :)