Oh, I didn't know that it was re-implemented.patrickjdempsey wrote:When they did the new Addons Manager, they didn't just rearrange and restyle the existing components like they did with the FindBar... this is a totally new implementation with it's own new hooks and all kinds of weird things happening in the styling. Which means you can't just drop the old addons manager code in. When I maintained my old Firefox Stratini themes, I seriously hacked the Addons Manager to look like this:
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It is still in a tab, but uses far less space and looks a little more like the old way. The problem is that doing something like this in an extension makes it not work well with Themes. And with my Themes, several popular addons manager modifying extensions where broken by my hacks. Getting something like that to work properly is a huge project that deserves it's own extension... the fact that there are multiple ones out there, all of which fail to do the job properly should give some indication of what a mess it is.
Well, in this case I think I'll just make a contribution to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamon ... n-manager/ so that the old addon manager is at least available.
Here's what I did by changing some attributes with DOM Inspector:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/367 ... anager.png
That already looks pretty close, except that there is no bar on the bottom, and themes don't have preview pane (Are the previews even used anywhere now?). There are some problems, like when hidden categories don't shrink, but it can be fixed easily when modifying the files themselves. Also fake overlay scrollbars style causes some glitches, but they happen with the default manager as well. And Linux styling (native color for selected category, and -moz-appearance for most elements) is not there, but that's easy to fix.