Feature Request: Indicate "searching" and "none found" clues on the extension's icon

[vendillah]

I discovered the extension shows a v-mark when it did find a pop-up. The other would be useful too: "none found" with an x-mark maybe. And even "searching" can be useful with ... or ? temporarily, while the extension is waiting for the page to be fully loaded, so that the user gets better (visual) feedback of whether the extension is working or not.

Once, I reported one of many sites, but apparently right after doing so the pop-up was resolved automatically. With the other indications, such may happen less frequently, resulting in less false negatives from showing up in the reported sites, as people know they may have to wait a little bit - which is what I discovered does the trick.

[dkgof]

I added "..." while searching, and "X" if an error has occured while handling the CMP. Currently it removes any badge, if nothing is found, so it goes from "..." to nothing. Not sure what icon would be a good indication of nothing found. Since this is not neccesarily an error.

[vendillah]

Alright, that's already very useful, but of course adding better visibility to that last status is still useful. So the different cases are:

• waiting-for-execution: /
• searching (+ handling?): "..."
• non-found: /
• error: "X"

What exactly would an error situation be? Not knowing how to resolve the popup? Or perhaps every problem? I propose to actually differentiate the unresolved pop-ups from pop-up errors using "?" (which is not consistent of my previous proposal, in which I'd be for searching) as that may be clearer.

For the non-found case, I don't know about a good one either honestly. My best proposal perhaps is to combine a lookup glass with a done mark as to indicate the searching has been completed. Though that would perhaps be confusing, as that done mark indicates success in general, while the extension may have missed something and the user then would not feel the extension has succeeded.

In any case, a more clear explanation (or just a few simple words describing the state) could be added in the popup, which the user would open up anyway to report pages in which the consent requests are not being auto-resolved yet. In fact, I don't think that the user will open it otherwise, so as it's opened solely for that purpose, it's okay to add that little more information there since it'd be useful knowledge before reporting.

Using a lookup glass instead of "..." may also be a better icon to indicate searching instead of what I first proposed :-)

Thanks for the visual feedback so far.