573878 - addon bar itself should be a module

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

say i want UI like the addon bar, but on the right side, and vertically oriented, full of my tabs, or top 10 most visited sites, or close twitter friends, or a marquee of recent pics from a flickr group i follow.

we should expose the bar UI itself to addons, so devs can create new ones with content and placement fully customizable by the addon.

Comment 1

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

See also Rockmelt: http://www.rockmelt.com/images/MAC_splash_mid.jpeg

If the bar itself was a module, so devs could create multiple, and put anywhere, we could build stuff like that pretty easily.

Comment 2

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

The Add-on SDK is no longer a Mozilla Labs experiment and has become a big enough project to warrant its own Bugzilla product, so the "Add-on SDK" product has been created for it, and I am moving its bugs to that product.

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Comment 3

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

We've been discouraging folks from creating toolbars, since they take up a lot of space and are frequently used poorly.  That said, it would be reasonable to provide a low-level library for creating toolbars that the high-level widget module uses (and which other API developers might also use).

Comment 4

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

Marking anything that potentially looks like a feature request as "enhancement", sorry for the bugspam. :)