Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Width and Height limitation #39

Open
532910 opened this issue Apr 23, 2018 · 3 comments
Open

Width and Height limitation #39

532910 opened this issue Apr 23, 2018 · 3 comments

Comments

@532910
Copy link

532910 commented Apr 23, 2018

My monitor is 1200x1600. Why do you limit me in 800x600?

@ReDEnergy
Copy link
Owner

ReDEnergy commented Apr 23, 2018

Tell me about it... Simply
Because someone (at Mozilla) thought that was normal!
In version 2 where I was able to create my own UI it was obviously possible to scale it to whatever size. But right know... can't do anything about it. My hands are literately tied. I can't create my own UI, and the only way to display the addon is this limited panel with way too many restrictions.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/user_interface/Popups
image

So yes... welcome to WebExtensions... a wonderful limited API compatible with Chrome but not that good overall. For months I was thinking if the addon could be ported or not properly, and it was a really complex task of trying various methods to fit everything inside that little panel. I don't even want to imagine how it looks for people that use 4K monitors.

The sad part is that Mozilla developers simply ignore this fact or they have a really good reason but it's kept secret.

I know that it's not a solution but the only way of having a bigger UI is to use the detach mode (tab or window)

@rayman89
Copy link

What about an option to let the users decide what they want to open when clicking on the button (popup, "dropdown" menu or tab)

@ReDEnergy
Copy link
Owner

Not sure I can do this with the current button but most probably I can add some option to create a second button that you can use for popup/tab view. I will investigate.
From version 3.1.0 you can define custom short-keys for each action (yes it's not a click :) on a button but still it may be an option)

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

3 participants