LJ Juggler Update!

[rushin_doll]

Google Chrome has continued to move along, adding new features, and finally LJ Juggler has caught up. With a few of the new Chrome APIs, I've been able to massively overhaul the extension. It now uses the same authentication methods that ljlogin for Firefox does. (Again, huge thanks to the people behind that for being open-source. Bouncing

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[lienne]

After the update:

Unfortunately, I literally can't see the logged-in account highlighting now-the difference in text colour is only visible if I put my face near the computer and squint, at which point I discover that the non-logged-in accounts are changing text colour too! Magic! The highlight on the logout option is good, though. *thumbs up*

I Photoshopped an example of a highlight I would personally find intuitive:
but really, any significant colour/brightness change in the person icon would work. (Moving the highlight along the list feels like dragging a little blue person between usernames. Rolling over the logged-in name feels like my little blue person just fell off a cliff.)

Sorry to nitpick all over your UI,

Pyth

PS: Why does LJ Juggler need access to my browsing history now? I looked at the changelog but it's still not quite clear.

[rushin_doll]

The "browsing history" thing is actually not access to browsing history. Unfortunately, at the moment, Chrome uses an extremely broad permission system for some things. In this particular case, the extension finds it useful to be able to open new tabs for things like the account management page, or the change log page.

So, basically, there's no "I just want to open new tabs" permission. There's just "let me manipulate all tabs everywhere" permission.

Hope that makes sense,
Ana

[metanomaly]

The reason that the highlighted account does not change graphically is because clicking on it serves no purpose; creating a graphical change when hovering may be a usability issue on the premise that users might be confused into thinking that clicking on it again would cause a change (log them out, or take them to their homepage, etc-- which would be fantastic, actually, but isn't an active feature at the moment).

This was why I didn't initially make a different graphic state for the logged-in account, but your suggestion for a change is subtle enough so that it might be alright to implement without affecting usability; if there is ever a feature to click on the account and cause an action, then the graphic will change significantly to reflect that.

I will make a new graphic element as per your suggestion and try it on my dev installation of the extension, but it may or may not end up implemented.