Extensions > Minimalist for Gmail™
== ANNOUNCEMENTS ==
Minor update for the new Google Bar.
Minimalist for Google Reader coming in a couple weeks. Follow me for details and beta invites: @anstosa
Questions about permissions? See PERMISSIONS section below.
== WHAT DOES IT DO? ==
It is a personalized solution for those who are tired of useless and distracting elements in the Gmail interface.
It removes as much or as little as you want. It also adds functionality if you so choose.
Look around the options page to see what it does first hand. Link below.
== OPTIONS ==
The Options page is easy to use and interactive features:
* Screenshots when you mouseover options so you know what you're changing
* Organized tabbed navigation
* See it in action here: [http://www.anselsantosa.com/sites/MinimalistGmail/options.html]
The following elements can be modified individually:
== GENERAL
* Hide Minimalist for Gmail options icon
* Custom loading screen
* Customize button colors
* Rounded corners on input fields and textareas
* Custom CSS input
== NOTIFICATIONS
* Favicon unread count
* Desktop notifications
== GOOGLE BAR
* Hide Google bar [click to toggle when hidden]
* Hide background & border
* Hide Google links
* Replace Google links with custom menu
* Hide logged in
* Hide Labs icon
* Hide Settings link
* Hide Help link
* Hide Sign out link
== HEADER
* Hide header [click to toggle when hidden]
* Hide logo
* Use custom logo
* Hide all search
* Hide mail search button
* Hide web search button
* Hide search sub-links
== MAIN
* Hide row borders
* Hide grabbers in rows
* Simplify rows until mouseover
* Show starred item row highlighting
* Show unread item highlighting
* Show select/hover highlights [in mail and contacts. keyboard navigation support]
* Hide zero-inbox whitespace
* Hide star icons
* Show better attachment icons [file specific, two built in styles and custom input via URL or base64]
* Floating toolbars scroll with page
* Hide top toolbar
* Hide bottom toolbar
* Use classic selection links instead of dropdown menu
* Hide checkbox tools in toolbar
* Hide Archive, Spam, Delete buttons
* Hide Move to, Labels buttons
* Hide More actions button
* Hide Refresh link
* Hide reply textbox in message view
* Hide "No new mail! Want to read updates from your favorite sites? Try Google Reader"
* Hide sidebar ads
* Hide experimental bottom ads
== NAVIGATION
* Hide navigation
* Floating nav bar scrolls with page
* Custom nav width
* Hide dividing lines
* Hide top of nav
* Hide mail button
* Hide contacts button
* Hide tasks button
* Hide middle of nav
* Hide compose mail button
* Hide Spam count
* Hide Buzz count
* Hide icons
* Hide more count
* Hide more link
* Hide invites
== CHAT
* Hide chat
* Hide "Search, add, or invite" box in chat
* Hide "Set status here"
* Hide "Sign in to AIM"
* Hide "You are invisible" alert in chat
* Hide offline chat contacts
* Hide offline sms contacts
* Hide idle chat contacts
* Hide chat statuses
== FOOTER
* Tips
* Options
* Legal
* Storage [classic]
* Storage > Label
* Storage > Graphic
* Storage > Verbose
* Storage > Menu
* Account activity [remove or move to top]
== MORE?
* Leave feature suggestions in the Issue Tracker: [http://code.google.com/p/minimalist-gmail/issues]
== HOW DO I WORK IT? ==
All the instructions you need are on the support page:
[http://code.google.com/p/minimalist-gmail/wiki/Support]
== ISSUES TRACKING ==
I test as thoroughly as I can before each release, but bugs are bound to get through.
Read, track, and submit bugs in the Issue Tracker:
[http://code.google.com/p/minimalist-gmail/issues]
== QUESTION? ==
* Ping me on Twitter: @anstosa
* Email me: ansel@anselsantosa.com
== COMING SOON ==
Want to see what's coming up? See the public to-do list:
[https://www.rememberthemilk.com/home/anstosa/10200213]
Want to recommend a feature? Submit it in the Issues Tracker:
[http://code.google.com/p/minimalist-gmail/issues/list]
== PERMISSIONS ==
Learn more about Chrome Extension permissions here: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=186213
If you look as the permissions required by similar extensions in the Web Store, you will see that they are exactly the same
so before you make assumptions based on two short and broad statements, please read the following:
== "tabs"
* This permissions results in the "This extensions can access your browsing history" warning.
* I *NEVER* access your browsing history.
* I need this permission to open tabs. I use this to open the options page on major updates.
* This permission is also used to refresh the Gmail tab when you save your settings.
== "http://*/*", "https://*/*"
* This permission results in the "This extension can access your data on all websites" warning.
* I *NEVER* access, read, store, or transmit your personal data.
* I need this permission to run user scripts behind specific pages in the browser.
* These scripts inject Javascript and CSS into Gmail to enhance functionality and hide elements
* The reason I ask for permissions to all pages and not just Gmail is because of my open in Gmail feature
which replaces all "mailto:" links in websites with a script that opens clickable email addresses in Gmail.
Still don't trust me? Go to [https://github.com/anstosa/Minimalist-Gmail] to see the entire source code.
== CHANGELOG ==
== 1.7.0 [26 Feb]
* Added: Floating navigation scrolls with page
* Added: Floating toolbars scroll with page
== 1.6.23 [24 Feb]
* Fixed: Make invisible until mouseover not reappearing on mouseover in Google Apps
* Fixed: Make invisible until mouseover not hiding Google Apps links
== 1.6.21 [22 Feb]
* Improved: Simplify rows code, also attachment icons fade until selction or mouseover
== 1.6.21 [22 Feb]
* Fixed: Checked checkboxes don't stay visible with Simplify Rows
== 1.6.20 [20 Feb]
* Fixed: Problems with old Google Bar
== 1.6.19 [16 Feb]
* Fixed: "More" drop-down on new Google bar not hide-able
== 1.6.18 [16 Feb]
* Added: Donate tab in options
* Fixed: Selection indicator hidden in simplify rows
* Fixed: Install failure on Chrome for Fedora
* Fixed: Google Bar features incompatible with new Google Bar
* Fixed: Activity under new Google Bar when moved to top
== 1.6.17 [10 Feb]
* Fixed: Offline chat contacts not hiding in French Gmail
== 1.6.16 [10 Feb]
* Removed: Calendar script from easter egg
* Fixed: Custom checkbox tools button shifting to left on hover
== 1.6.15 [10 Feb]
* Fixed: Custom buttons shifting to left on hover
== 1.6.14 [9 Feb]
* Fixed: stupid typo...
== 1.6.13 [9 Feb]
* Improved: Simplify rows dims labels until mouseover
* Fixed: Simplify rows permanently hiding checkboxes
* Fixed: Offline and idle chat contacts not hiding in French Gmail
* Fixed: [ g ] + [ l ] hiding header when it was open
* Fixed: Custom buttons shifting to left on hover
== 1.6.12 [7 Feb]
* Fixed: Naming convension not adhereing to Google's branding policies
* Fixed: [ g ] + [ l ] unhiding Google Bar when Header wasn't hidden
== 1.6.11 [4 Feb]
* Fixed: Keyboard shortcuts only working if Select/hover row highlights enabled
== 1.6.10 [3 Feb]
* Fixed: Options button in popup didn't open version notes on minor updates
== 1.6.9 [3 Feb]
* Added: Hide sms contacts in chat
* Added: Hide Idle contacts in chat
* Added: Hide "Sign in to AIM" in chat
* Added: Hide Zero-inbox whitespace
* Added: Hide dividing lines in navigation
* Added: Hide grabbers in rows
* Fixed: Search options in header not working on macs
* Fixed: When select highlights are enabled and unread highlights aren't unread rows aren't highlighted on mouseover
== 1.6.8 [2 Feb]
* Fixed: Header not toggling when Hide Google Bar is enabled
* Fixed: Header options not working
* Fixed: Row highlights only working as expected with all enabled
== 1.6.7 [1 Feb]
* Fixed: Something stupid...
== 1.6.6 [1 Feb]
* Added: Color blending for row highlighting. [red unread color + blue hover color = purple hover on unread item]
* Fixed: Offline chat not hiding
* Improved: Row selected with keyboard navigation with un-simplify
* Improved: Total revamp of triggers and timers. Significant performance improvement. Especially while idle.
* Changed: Move activity to top. Translucent and centered. Will not hide or fade with Google Bar or header.
* Removed: Unread color for select/hover. Now when multiple cases overlap, the colors blend.
* Removed: Hide Inbox link [impossible to do universaly unless it's first on the list. Do it in Custom CSS]
== 1.6.5
* Fixed: Random backend stuff to make remotedbug diagnostics easier
== 1.6.4
* Added: Made animated transitions optional [may decrease performance on slower machines]
== 1.6.3
* Added: Very subtle transition effects
* Added: Hide inactive scrollbar option
* Added: mailto script is not optional for those with bugs on other sites or who use desktop clients
* Added: Show "more" menu with custom Google Bar links with all original links included in the dropdown
* Added: Made show nav on mouseover optional
* Improved: First line no longer highlights as if selected for users who don't use keyboard navigation
* Improved: [ ` ] tilde key now toggles nav bar if hidden
* Improved: [ \ ] now toggles header and gbar on and off [only when either is hidden by default]
* Improved: Performace improvement for keyboard navigation in messaged
* Improved: Performace improvement for offline contact hiding
* Fixed: Keyboard navigation past either end of list unhighlights top or bottom item
* Fixed: Keyboard navigation not highlighting the right rows, not unhighlighting non-selected rows
* Fixed: Displaying checkbox tools as list breaks all toolbar dropdowns
* Fixed: Icon row from hidden sidebar floats over long subject lines
* Fixed: [ g ] + [ l ] shortcut broken
* Fixed: CPU obliteration bug. [Sorry, didn't notice it on my Quad Core i7 but turned my CR-48 into a rock :-)]
== 1.6.2
* Fixed: Messaged appearing below for unknown reasons [hide nav and custom nav width still broken for those users]
== 1.6.1
* Fixed: Messages appearing below chat because of gadgets
== 1.6.0
* Added: Toggle Minimalist Gmail on/off. New dropdown from URL bar icon allows toggling and link to Options
* Added: "Panic!" button in URL icon dropdown. Just reloads the page but that fixes a lot of problems
* Added: Reset option for custom button colors
* Added: Hide "You are invisible" alert in chat
* Added: "Settings saved" message for peace of mind and to remind you to refresh!
* Added: Notes and explanations everywhere for clarification
* Added: Custom navigation width
* Added: Custom loading screen
* Added: Rounded corners on fields and text areas
* Added: Hide logo
* Added: Hide Google Bar border & background
* Added: Hide reply textbox in message. [ r ] and reply links still trigger reply pane
* Added: Hide row borders
* Added: Unread item highlighting
* Added: Simplify rows, hides most elements in row until mouseover
* Added: Hide Inbox link
* Added: Hide "more" count
* Added: Use classic selection link list instead of dropdown menu
* Added: Custom CSS input for advanced users
* Added: Import/Export settings and several presets
* Improved: [ / ] shortcut focuses search and unhides header if hidden. Rehide with [ \ ]
* Improved: Toggle stripes are only tinted on mouseover. Ultra minimalists rejoice!
* Improved: Activity no longer replaces Google Links when moved to top
* Imporved: Google Bar toggle stripe now above Google Bar
* Improved: If Google Bar and Header are both hidden, they share a toggle stripe
* Improved: Resource usage. Should be a bit less bulky now
* Improved: Options page scrolling and expandable element behavior
* Improved: Added 6th custom link for Google Link Bar. "More" hides automatically
* Improved: Added seperate hover/select row highlight color for unread items
* Improved: Navigation now has click to toggle and show on mouseover
* Fixed: Options page mouseovers should no longer appear outside the viewport on smaller screens
* Fixed: Hide mail search doesn't work with apps search lab enabled
* Fixed: Activity still visible if Google Bar hidden
* Fixed: Easter Egg! Click "more" in title of the "More" tab to load my personal Voice, Reader, & Calendar Scripts
* Fixed: Navigation not hiding
* Fixed: No row highlight colors applied to first item on load [starred takes precendent]
* Fixed: Starred item highlight color not applied when superstars enabled
* Fixed: OpenOffice formats not recognized by Better Attachment Icons
* Fixed: Whitespace when hiding sidebar & package tracking infomation hidden
* Fixed: Hide Chat hiding all gadgets. Will work with Drag & Drop but Chat must be second, after Compose, inbox etc.
* Fixed: All Google User Bar elements causing problems
* Fixed: Hide Offline not hiding offline cell phones
* Fixed: Hide chat search box hiding RTM add task box
* Fixed: Bottom toolbar not hiding in messages
== Earlier releases
* View full changelog on the project homepage: [http://code.google.com/p/minimalist-gmail/#CHANGELOG]
== CREDITS ==
Most of Minimalist Gmail is written from the ground-up but some things are just perfect already:
* mailto script by Julien Couvreur
* favicon unread counter by Peter Wooley
Full details on the About page: [http://www.anselsantosa.com/sites/MinimalistGmail/options.html#abo]
== LEGAL ==
I am not a Google Employee or officially affiliated with Google in any way. This extension is not endorsed by Google.
Google, Gmail, and the Gmail logo are trademarks of Google Inc.
Use of these trademarks is subject to Google Permissions.
All bundled scripts are copyright of their original authors.
I am not, nor is my extension related to "Minimalist Gmail By Matt Constantine" http://mattconstantine.com/mg/| Collapse |
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