[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#907740: webext-debianbuttons: significantly less convenient than the old xul-ext-debianbuttons

[Francesco Poli]

On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 11:29:06 +0000 Damyan Ivanov wrote:

[...]
> Welcome to the new world of web-extensions :|

Ouch, not a good place to be...   :-(

Congratulations to the designers of the new API: forcing all the
extension developers to migrate to a new interface, in order to get
worse extensions...  :-/

On the other hand, thanks to you for your prompt and kind reply.
Much appreciated!

[...]
> The paste hapens automatically, but it is a <Ctrl-V>-kind of paste, 
> (desktop environment keyboard) not middle mouse click (x clipboard). 
> This is the only access to the clipboard that exists in the web-ext 
> API.

I cannot understand how to make the automatic paste happen.

If I select something and then hit [Ctrl+C], I still have to:

 * click on the Debian button in order to get a menu
 * paste the copied selection with [Ctrl+V] into the text field
 * click or right-click on one of the options

This looks even slower than the other, X-clipboard-based procedure
(since there is also the need to hit [Ctrl+C] and then [Ctrl+V])...

If I just use [Ctrl+C] and then click on the Debian button, nothing
happens, when I click or right-click on one of the options...
What did I fail to understand?
Am I completely off-track?

> 
> BTW you can also click on the "disabled" buttons, which only look like 
> they are disabled.

OK.

> 
> I agree this is different and less comfortable compared with the 
> pre-webext version. I only have hopes to ever fix the second point. 
> I guess access to the X clipboard may be added in a future firefox 
> release.

It would be great, if, at least, the extension could read the X
clipboard, without using the text field.
If this could be implemented, the text field could be completely
removed and the user could select some text and then:

 * click on the Debian button
 * click or right-click on one of the options

It would still require twice as many clicks as the pre-webext version,
but it could be considered acceptable...

> 
> > Is there any chance to get the old-style buttons again?
> > Please let me know.
> 
> Apart of splitting the extension in to several (ouch!), I think not.

That's really unfortunate.  :-(


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