787396 - Add "Location Bar"'s button type

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Matteo Ferretti [:zer0] [:matteo]]

As the UX mockups shows:

http://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/files/addons-in-toolbar-i01/addons-in-toolbar.html

Some add-on / widgets needs to be displayed into the location bar rather than add-on bar (e.g. F1 / Firefox Share).

Comment 1

[Erik Vold [:erikvold] (please needinfo? me)]

Have you started on this one Matteo?

Comment 2

[Matteo Ferretti [:zer0] [:matteo]]

Yes, it's part of the work I'm doing right now. I'm also going to publish the API proposal this week – I'm polishing it.

Instead, I'd like to involve you in the toolbar component type (bug 787390) API proposal, let me know when we can have a meeting!

Comment 3

[Erik Vold [:erikvold] (please needinfo? me)]

What is the scope of this bug? is it simply about allowing widgets in the location bar?

Comment 4

[Matteo Ferretti [:zer0] [:matteo]]

Don't use the term widgets anymore for this kind of components, otherwise it will be confusing with the current widgets we have :)

There are still a couple of things to be decided in the API proposals, you will see this week when I will updated it; however you can think about this Location Button mostly as an Action/Toggle Button (see bug 787392) that is displayed in the location bar instead of navbar.

I said mostly because they're not quite the same, but they share most of the capabilities.

Comment 5

[Erik Vold [:erikvold] (please needinfo? me)]

Hey Matteo, are you working on this one? if not could you please unassign yourself.

Comment 6

[Matteo Ferretti [:zer0] [:matteo]]

Not working on this anymore; WebExtensions will have this functionality – Page Action – so it should be possible for SDK users to use them too. See bug 1237377.

Comment 7

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399562