Too many changes to list here, essentially there is now a
user interface setting to enable/disable dark theme, and
I've rearranged a bit the Settings pane as a result and
also altered other visuals in various places.
There are places which I know have not been thoroughly
tested (i.e. logger inspector).
Will fine-tune as per feedback.
Issues with the classic popup panel will not be addressed,
and if feedback is that it has become unusuable, it will be
outright removed.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/1541
A "chat" icon has been added to the popup panel to make
it easy to report filter issue on specific sites.
Reporting filter issues require a GitHub account, since
uBO does not have a home server through which reports could
be sent.
The report icon is available only for when uBO is enabled
on a given site.
On mobile devices, the logger icon is replaced by the "chat"
icon since it is more likely to be useful on small display
devices. The logger can always be opened from the Support
pane in the dashboard.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/210
Additionally, a small (experimental) widget has been added
to emphasize/de-emphasize rows which have 3rd-party
scripts/frames, so as to more easily identify which rows
are "affected" by 3rd-party scripts and/or frames.
Tooltip localization for the new widget is not available
yet as I want wait for the feature to be fully settled.
The "blocked since install" row has been moved
in last position, so that figures that represent
the current site are grouped together.
Do not prevent wrapping the count text strings,
use a minimum width instead -- those count text
strings can be more verbose in some locale, and
by allowing the text to wrap this result in a
less wide main panel.
The old "classic" popup panel will still be used
when at least one of the following is true:
- advanced setting `uiFlavor` is set to `classic`; or
- the browser is Chromium 65 or older; or
- the browser is Firefox 67 or older
The default configuration of the new popup panel
at installation time is to show the power button,
statistics and the basic tool icons, i.e. access
to dashboard, logger, pickers.
For existing installations, the new popup panel
will be configured by respecting the existing
configuration of the classic one.
The new popup panel is currently already in use
on Firefox for Android, and the visual redesign
was made according to suggestions and feedback
from <https://github.com/brampitoyo> to be
optimal for Firefox for Android.
The new popup panel will allow closing the following
pending issues:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/255
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/178
The blocking-stuff button icons have been brought
closer to the power button.
The go-somewhere button icons have been moved at
the bottom.
The hostname of the current site is now shown below
the power button. The base domain is bolded.
This re-ordering is for a few reasons:
- The blocking-stuff button icons are now closer
to the revert/persist/reload transient buttons
which show up when modifying the blocking
behavior of uBO.
- The makes it easier to potentially bring in a
very basic view where only the power button and
the statistics are shown and all the button
icons are hidden from view.
This commit specifically address bringing the
desktop version of the new popup panel's look
and feel more inline with the classic one:
- Hide tool captions on desktop
- Bring back no-popups switch on desktop
- Bring back tooltips on desktop (though they
are now rendered natively by the browser)
- Use the Photon icons suggested by @brampitoyo
for the no-popups and no-remote-fonts
switches
As per email feedback from Mozilla's
https://github.com/brampitoyo
This is yet another incremental step toward
redesigning the UI, much more is left to do.
The idea is to align uBO's UI to that of
Firefox Preview.
Additionally, code has been added to reset
the new popup panel to vertical layout should
the viewport be not wide enough to
accomodate the horizontal layout.
Related feedback:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/g4ufvi/
Related commits:
- 0662767dd6
- 99b2a0a761
- a8e3118fea
- 453f5450b6
- a45a21f337
This commit focuses on implementing the use of
CSS `var(...)` throughout so as to make it easy
to create themes -- a requirement for uBO to
support a dark theme.
There is still work to do regarding converting
uBO's CSS to completely support `var(...)` but
being able to start using theming will help
complete and fine tune CSS `var(...)` support.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/401
Hostnames which have unpunycoded IDN or canonical
name information will have this information reported
as an extra line under the hostname name in the popup
panel, rather than as a tooltip.
For the fenix UI flavor, the save/revert tools are
now shown regardless of whether the overview area is
visible or not.
First draft of changes as discussed with Firefox
Preview people.
In order to allow testing/evaluating these changes,
the new advanced setting `uiFlavor` has been added.
Default to `unset`; and can currently only be set
to `fenix`.
The new setting takes effect at launch only. This
new setting is not to be mentioned in official
documentation for now.
This is ongoing work, not open to external feedback.
Raymond Hill