Ipfs-companion: Redirection toggle in popup menu

[swedneck]

It would be handy to be able to disable/enable redirection to the gateway quickly from the popup menu, like you can with the global toggle.

[lidel]

Hm.. one already can disable redirect via this menu item:

I agree it is not very intuitive :) Should we rename it to something else?
Or are you suggesting moving it from menu to an icon next to the global toggle?

[swedneck]

Yeah that's a bit unintuitive, i'd presume that public gateway simply means it will redirect any page to the public gateway rather than 127.0.0.1:8080.

I would put it next to the global toggle, although i'm not sure what icon to use.

[lidel]

@swedneck does any of these icons fit, or should we design a new one?

cc @olizilla for UX sanity check :)

[swedneck]

I can't find any icon there that really feels like it fits..

How about something like this?

[swedneck]

It could also work to just rename it from "Switch to (custom|public) gateway" to "(Enable|Disable) gateway redirection" and otherwise leave it as is.

[lidel]

Some mockups below. Would appreciate sanity check.

Text-based global redirect toggle

| Enabled | Disabled |
| ---- | ---- |
| | |

Icon-based global redirect toggle

Alone, text may be enough, but we plan to add per-site redirect opt-out (#633) so the icon for global toggle may be a better idea:

| Enabled | Disabled |
| ---- | ---- |
| | |

Having that, menu could include a single text toggle for current site:

Thoughts? Feelings?

[swedneck]

All of those look great, the last one looks perfect!

[lidel]

@swedneck WIP in https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion/pull/687

[lidel]

Proposed toggle in action (from PR https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion/pull/687#issuecomment-467243819):

This is a good time to provide feedback (or propose a better glyph) :)

[hacdias]

@lidel I can't provide a better glyph right now but I don't thing it looks really good between the other two. The other are kind of circular, big, heavy. On the other hand, the middle one is just a plain icon. I'd, at least, put it into a circle to match the other two.

[lidel]

Cannot be unseen:

[olizilla]

I am ded 😭 🤣

[lidel]

For what its worth _the hatboi_ goes away if we add another (lighter) glyph.
If it is something with similar stroke weight, things look more balanced:

We could also move the power button to the end:

Thoughts?

[olizilla]

i miss hatboi.

[redirect] [power] [settings] order wouldmake sense to me. But i think you should give hatboi a chance.

[lidel]

[redirect] [power] [settings]

[lidel]

After some additional reviews it seems that the icon is causing more confusion than it should, and a regular menu item is more intuitive.

See update in https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion/pull/687#issuecomment-469369693

[lidel]

Ready for testing: v2.7.5.748 (Beta)