Anyway, I’ll walk you through, step by step:

1. “Tries to do too much and the interface suffers” – I’m sorry for you, but… Tough luck! The next versions are going to be even more feature rich. One of the new features is going to be the option to set a custom window position, be it a absolute value (in pixels, just how you like it), or a relative value (such as “left”, “top”, etc.)
However, the interface will be completely redesigned.

2. “I just want to see the resolution in pixels” – most people find it easier to remember some names, something their familiar with, not some combinations of numbers. That’s why I added the option to use a custom name for your presets, so you can add stuff like “My work PC”, or “My boss’s laptop”, so you don’t have to remember the exact resolution.
Also, there’s nothing stopping you to use the pixel numbers as the title, so you can add something like “1024 x 768″ if that’s what you’re after. I don’t understand why you haven’t done that yet…

3. “not something as fuzzy as ‘Not that old computers’” – the presets list the plugin comes with is just some generic list, and the names are meant to show you some examples of what you can do (and maybe put a smile on some people’ faces). I couldn’t possibly make a list of all existing resolutions, as it would be to long. It’s up to each user to customize the list as she pleases.

4. “The designations for ‘desktop’, ‘notebook’, etc. are also of no use.” – but they are. Maybe not for you, but for others it certainly is. Using specific icons for specific resolutions, makes it easier to find what you’re looking for. When you’re scanning the list for, let’s say, the iPhone resolution, it’s going to be easier to find it knowing what icon it has.

5. “I also want to select whether I’m sizing the window or the viewport when I create a custom size.” – maybe if you’d had looked a little more carefully, you would have seen the other use for those “useless” screen types you mentioned earlier. It’s explained in the “Settings” page of the plugin and highlighted in the video tutorial that you can find by clicking on the “Support” links on this page.
By choosing “Mobile” as the screen type, it not only sets the icon for that preset, but it will also resize the viewport to the desired dimensions, not the entire window. This is also explained on the support page.

6. ” prepopulate the form with the current window size” – well, this is the only good and constructive thing you’ve said so far. Thank you for suggesting it. I’ll definetly implement this feature in the next update.

Best Regards,
Ionut B.

The biggest thing that would improve it would be that when you add a custom size it would prepopulate the form with the current window size. I also want to select whether I’m sizing the window or the viewport when I create a custom size.

Make it simpler.

Now i’m thinking on a Cellphone emulator..

@Tim

1) I thought about that and I’ll probably do it in a future update.

2) The default options are just some examples. I know their titles are not the most accurate titles there could be, but I’ve added the posibility to use a title that’s different from the actual resolution because there are people that don’t know each device’s resolution so it’s easier for them to give a name to that.
I also know that resolution is not related to the size of the display. I had a 15.4″ laptop that had 1680×1050 as its native resolution, but, in my examples, I used the resolutions I found to be the most common to the devices names I’ve used (1280×800 in this case).

Anyway, what you did is what I expected all users to do: delete the defaults and add their own resolutions to suit their needs. As I already said, the defaults are just meant to be some examples of how the extension could be used.

Thanks for the feedback! I’ll keep in mind everything you suggested. Although these are not things I didn’t thought about, now I have the confirmation that there are users who would find those useful.

1) Option to move this to the extension toolstrip? I hardly need it *all* the time.

2) Option to toggle showing resolution as the entry name? When I look at “Not that old computers”, I frankly have no idea what that means. I’ve just gone through and deleted all the default entries, and replaced them by ones with names being the resolution that they represent.

My laptop is a 12-incher, and its resolution is the same as your entry from 15.4″. Thus, ‘Laptop 15.4″‘ is fairly inaccurate, because the resolution doesn’t strictly have anything to do with the size of the display.

Anyway.. point being that the default options are now all deleted on my installation, because none of them were quite what I would want to see.

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