[Companion] Toolbar Updates

[Jesse Savage]

New XPI attached. Fixed packaging.

-jesse

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 21:42:51 -0800, "Jesse Savage"
<mozdev at jsavage.fastmail.fm> said:
> Hey all,
> 
> Attached are some updates I've made to the Yahoo Toolbar. I've tried to
> make them on top of Brian Kennelly's most current changes. I should also
> warn the list that some of these changes are not in the IE Yahoo
> Toolbar, i.e. they're new. I don't know if these sorts of changes go
> against the spirit of the companion project but they were changes I
> thought were useful.
> 
> Here are the list of changes:
> 
> + mozilla preferences
> 
> I've added code to the toolbar that let's a user modify some of the
> toolbar's behavior/functionality via the standard mozilla preferences. I
> haven't added any GUI to access these preferences. But if you're
> interested in seeing/modifying them, type "about:config" in the URL and
> then you can filter the list by "yahootoolbar". It should also be noted
> that these preferences are separate from the preferences you can set via
> the yahoo website, i.e. like the layout, adding buttons, and modifying
> your bookmarks. These preferences are local just to the Mozilla toolbar.
> 
> 
> + quick launch links
> 
> I've added functionality to the yahoo toolbar similiar to the bookmarks
> toolbar in mozilla or the links toolbar in IE. It allows you to add
> bookmarks or menus of bookmarks directly to the toolbar itself. By
> default the code looks for a folder called "Toolbar" in your bookmarks
> to determine what to add. However, you can change the name of what
> folder it looks for by modifying the mozilla preference
> "yahootoolbar.quickLaunchFolder". You can also turn this functionality
> off via the preferences as well.
> 
> 
> + replaced browser bookmarks
> 
> I've also added functionality that adds the yahoo bookmarks as a main
> menu to the browser itself. By default the code hides the standard
> bookmarks menu and it also hides the standard bookmarks menu on the
> yahoo toolbar as well. You can choose to show both of these menus
> individually and/or turn off the new yahoo bookmarks menu in the browser
> via the preferences.
> 
> 
> + removed empty tooltips
> 
> I also removed the tooltips in the yahoo toolbar (including the ones
> that were showing up empty). I may have been a little cavalier here. If
> folks would prefer we can keep the tooltips and set them to show the
> menu or bookmark names. Personally I find the tooltips redundant. There
> was a suggestion to set these to the URLs when available but these URLs
> can be very long.
> 
> 
> + add import/export links
> 
> Finally, I also added links to import/export your bookmarks via the
> bookmarks menu. These are only links to the pages yahoo provides to do
> the same. But I thought the toolbar could advertise this functionality a
> little better.
> 
> 
> On some last notes I should say that I haven't tested or optomized these
> changes much so please let me know if you find anything wrong. I also
> hope the preferences I've added are self-explanatory but feel free to
> ask me about any of them.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Jesse
> -- 
>   Jesse Savage
>   jsavage at fastmail.fm
> 
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