Port to webextension

[marczellm]

This is a working port to WebExtension. Fixes #66 and #85

I did not write a new Makefile as I'm not familiar with it.

[bpierre]

Thanks for this effort @marczellm, and I apologise for not being as active as I’d like to be on this project. I’ll have a look whenever possible in the next week.

[PerfectSlayer]

Nice @marczellm 👍 💖

I understand your concern but I am like you! I spent hours to fix some issues and maintain this add-on and I got no right to update it on AMO and no privileged contact with @bpierre 😞

The best I can do is test your (awesome) work and merge your PR.
But it still won't update the add-on on AMO 😢

Whatever you choose, ping me if you need help with Makefile. It's not so complicated once you learn it 😉

[PerfectSlayer]

@bpierre No worry, it's common in Open Source software that the maintainer became busy or move from a project.
But why do not you create a GitHub organization and list other maintainer as "extension developer" on AMO?
So we could continue to evolve the add-on without having to fork and loose all the users?

[bpierre]

@PerfectSlayer Sure thing! I didn’t see the release itself as the bottleneck, it’s a quick thing for me to do once we get something merged.

The problem is more to find the time to review PRs, especially this one, which is a rewrite that also contains at least one important UX change. I would like to review it properly before merging it. To be entirely honest, I also felt a bit discouraged when the new Firefox extension format got replaced by a new-new one, and lost some motivation. But I would be super happy to be able to use gtranslate again!

⬇️ Actions ⬇️

• I think it does makes sense to use gtranslate/gtranslate. I used to think that an organization for a single project was overkill, but it is a common practice on GitHub nowadays. Doing it now. (EDIT: done ✨)
• Shall we create a Gitter channel? We already have an IRC channel but Gitter might be easier to use nowadays. (EDIT: done https://gitter.im/gtranslate/gtranslate)
• @PerfectSlayer I will give you the rights to publish releases on AMO too 👍

@marczellm sorry for polluting this PR 😅

[mote0230]

As far as I know, without https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1440635 the extension will send your selected text to Google every time you right click and have text selected, which was unacceptable for privacy reasons to most maintainers. Anything changed here? Op wo 9 mei 2018 18:59 schreef Pierre Bertet <[email protected]>:

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@PerfectSlayer <https://github.com/PerfectSlayer> Sure thing! I didn’t see the release itself as the bottleneck, it’s a quick thing for me to do once we get something merged. The problem is more to find the time to review PRs, especially this one, which is a rewrite that also contains at least one important UX change. I would like to review it properly before merging it. To be entirely honest, I also felt a bit discouraged when the new Firefox extension format got replaced by a new-new one, and lost some motivation. But I would be super happy to be able to use gtranslate again! ⬇️ Actions ⬇️ - I think it makes sense to use gtranslate/gtranslate now. I used to think that an organization for a single project was overkill, but it is a common practice on GitHub nowadays. Doing it now. - Shall we create a Gitter <https://gitter.im> channel? We already have an IRC channel but Gitter might be easier to use nowadays. - @PerfectSlayer <https://github.com/PerfectSlayer> I will give you the rights to publish releases on AMO too 👍 @marczellm <https://github.com/marczellm> sorry for polluting this PR 😅 — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#86 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAtZMQH50OX_f2Q4WSlv6g8oHxke2M0Jks5twyBbgaJpZM4T4nfD> .

[marczellm]

No, it hasn’t changed.

[achernyakevich-tch]

Hi.

Maybe desired feature could be achieved by slight change of user behavior. For example, the following case could be valuable for me:

• I do some selection on screen
• I make right click
• context menu is displayed
• I navigate to gTranslate's menu item Translate ...
• I click this menu item
• on click extension will call Google Translate service, build next level submenu and show to me required information

So difference is only "click/press Enter" vs "on mouse over/selection item by keyboard".

From other side it will completely avoid problem of sending of selection to Google every time when context menu is called.