[Feature Request] GM_config

[chocolateboy]

So far, Violentmonkey has done a great job of achieving parity with classic Greasemonkey. 🎉 Now that the dust has settled, perhaps it's worth considering adding an enhancement or two to the platform?

One thing forks such as Scriptish did is add support for new APIs, in the same way browsers prototype and pioneer extensions to the web platform. One piece that's missing from the userscript puzzle is a way to present the user with a config/settings page. There's an appetite for this, but the solutions are either unattractive or unmaintained. If it was built-in, with a common/core API, it could make userscripts the natural choice for the sizeable number of customizable pagemods that don't otherwise need to be full-blown extensions.

It's clear from Violentmonkey's UI/UX and its website that design is an interest. This is an opportunity to leverage that interest in a way that could benefit the whole ecosystem and help to re-establish userscripts as the go-to platform for portable browser-extensions. MUGA!

UI, Usage, API, Notes

Edit: Moved here.

See Also

• Legacy Spec for Firefox-Addon Preference Pages
• MonkeyConfig
• sizzlemctwizzle/GM_config

[eight04]

There are some discussions about config API in Greasemonkey too:
greasemonkey/greasemonkey#2714

[chocolateboy]

I've moved the details of this proposal to a wiki page, so it's a) versioned and b) something anyone can contribute to:

https://github.com/chocolateboy/userscripts/wiki/GM_config

Feel free to discuss the proposal here and/or make changes there.

[chocolateboy]

https://github.com/mozilla-services/react-jsonschema-form

[tophf]

There should be some unified effort between engines so we will consider implementing this only if Tampermonkey does it first. As for Greasemonkey, its stance is evidently to provide only the bare minimum or even less than that.

[tophf]

Closing due to the lack of any progress in Tampermonkey and @gera2ld's usual reluctance to ship stuff that can be implemented by userscript authors in JS.

[gera2ld]

I think this can be implemented in vm-ui as pure JavaScript, in a script-manager-agnostic way.

Ref: violentmonkey/vm-ui#1