kazuki-sf/ChatGPT_Extension

Suggestion: be able to keep the extension open when clicking outside field

JakobRobijns opened this issue · 3 comments

JakobRobijns commented

When opening the prompt and clicking somewhere else (by accident or to copy/paste) it would be nice to have an option to keep it open until explicitly closed.

itai11 commented

And/Or persisting the frame when leaving it / closing it.

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kazuki-sf commented

Thanks for the suggestion, Jakob and Itai!
It's a little bit tricky to persist the frame but let me check!

ziogas commented

Love the simplicity of the extension and the fact it's open-source!

Based on my experience with building Chrome extensions, I think the quickest thing for you would be to open it in a popup mode (like calling window.open()).

Then, you could use Chrome Windows API to resize:

  1. main chrome window, reducing its width by 300px;
  2. this new popup window to have 300px width + full height and place to the top right.

That way, people could surf the web, and history would be saved without your additional coding effort, preserving the extension's simplicity.

Just my 2 cents that it would be great to have the current behavior, too, as sometimes it's a lot faster to open it quickly for one time. Especially if you're adding a keyboard shortcut. So maybe this new functionality could be triggered on a right click?

Cheers