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Most add-ons have preferences. On the desktop, some add-ons create a preferences dialog while others use pages in content. Pages in content are still a workable strategy in Fennec, but dialogs are something we've really tried to avoid. To help out add-ons authors, we've created a system to let you put your prefs inline in the add-ons manager: | Most add-ons have preferences. On the desktop, some add-ons create a preferences dialog while others use pages in content. Pages in content are still a workable strategy in Fennec, but dialogs are something we've really tried to avoid. To help out add-ons authors, we've created a system to let you put your prefs inline in the add-ons manager: | ||
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/menros/3909654621/in/photostream/ http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2445/3909654621_ce80327d8d.jpg] | <center>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/menros/3909654621/in/photostream/ http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2445/3909654621_ce80327d8d.jpg]</center> | ||
http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2009/09/fennec-handling-add-on-options/ | http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2009/09/fennec-handling-add-on-options/ | ||
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Fennec tries to do this too. This is the set of preferences in desktop Firefox 3.0 (as of August 2008): | Fennec tries to do this too. This is the set of preferences in desktop Firefox 3.0 (as of August 2008): | ||
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/menros/3909636635/in/photostream http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3503/3909636635_e8e9398cb1.jpg] | <center>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/menros/3909636635/in/photostream http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3503/3909636635_e8e9398cb1.jpg]</center> | ||
That's seven tabs, one of which contains four sub-tabs (Advanced), over the course of which the user can click on buttons to bring up a further 23 windows or panels, one of which has a further five tabs. I'm not even going to count the individual preferences. This has been cut down to the following in Fennec: | That's seven tabs, one of which contains four sub-tabs (Advanced), over the course of which the user can click on buttons to bring up a further 23 windows or panels, one of which has a further five tabs. I'm not even going to count the individual preferences. This has been cut down to the following in Fennec: | ||
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/menros/3910446512/ http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2621/3910446512_1d467c6b48.jpg] | <center>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/menros/3910446512/ http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2621/3910446512_1d467c6b48.jpg]</center> | ||
If Fennec can do it, so can your add-on! | If Fennec can do it, so can your add-on! | ||