Stick to Side?

[carve...@gmail.com]

Hi, first I'd like so THANK YOU so much for creating this excellent Chrome extension, I've tried many others and this is by far the best.

The one question I have is if there is a way to make Outliner window "stick" or "lock" to one side of the main Chrome window instead of being free-floating and adjust its size if the main window size is changed.

Thank you very much!
- Carver

[Vladyslav Volovyk]

No, as this extension gives you overview of all windows on the desktop, it is much more logical to dock it to the desktop side, not to some specific window.

Yet original idea when i start develop this was actually to dock to windows. But this prove self very annoying, buggy and inefficient, because Chrome lack support of native sidebars like Firefox does.

So i decide other approach, and must say that even for my surprise, this side panel, which is not related to any window, is actually MUCH more usable than window sidebars. It is not vaste you screen space if only several tabs are open, it allow easily changing width of panel to see long titles, observability of all open windows is much better, when it is not need it is not there at all (most of the time we actually absolutely ok with default chrome tab strip - it is actually usable and useful in not too many tabs scenarios).

Yet, as I heard, there is plans in Chrome team to implement sidebars for extensions. When it will be done, I add this option in a next day, and maybe it will show only tabs and subtree of the current window. So maybe it worth to hurry up them : ).  

PS And thank you for your THANKS : ) It is really stimulate me for further development.

[Vladyslav Volovyk]

By the way. It is interesting idea for anybody who want to try own hands in chrome extensions development. It must be very easy to write extension which will monitor any predefined window, and will dock it to currently active window, and then will move and resize both of them synchronized. Must take not longer than a week or two to write (along with testing, bugfixing, publishing, site materials and initial support - really nice small project to learn something).