Notify users about certain changes in installed extensions.

chrome/browser/extensions/extension_prefs.h

Index: chrome/browser/extensions/extension_prefs.h
diff --git a/chrome/browser/extensions/extension_prefs.h b/chrome/browser/extensions/extension_prefs.h
index e791e8c840af8127f7c13339092c689513430ec6..e9910932fbca757367297b9fcbc35e0ffbe997ab 100644
--- a/chrome/browser/extensions/extension_prefs.h
+++ b/chrome/browser/extensions/extension_prefs.h
@@ -155,6 +155,29 @@ class ExtensionPrefs : public ExtensionContentSettingsStore::Observer {
   // Based on extension id, checks prefs to see if it is blacklisted.
   bool IsExtensionBlacklisted(const std::string& id);
 
+  // Based on extension id, checks prefs to see if it is orphaned.
+  bool IsExtensionOrphaned(const std::string& id);
+
+  // Whether the user has acknowledged an external extension.
+  bool IsExternalExtensionAcknowledged(const std::string& extension_id);
+  void AcknowledgeExternalExtension(const std::string& extension_id);
+
+  // Whether the user has acknowledged a blacklisted extension.
+  bool IsBlacklistedExtensionAcknowledged(const std::string& extension_id);
+  void AcknowledgeBlacklistedExtension(const std::string& extension_id);
+
+  // Whether the user has acknowledged an orphaned extension.
+  bool IsOrphanedExtensionAcknowledged(const std::string& extension_id);
+  void AcknowledgeOrphanedExtension(const std::string& extension_id);
+
+  // Whether the extension notification code has already run for the first
+  // time for this profile. Currently we use this flag to mean that any
+  // extensions that would trigger notifications should get silently
+  // acknowledged. This is a fuse. Calling it the first time returns false.
+  // Subsequent calls return true. It's not possible through an API to ever
+  // reset it. Don't call it unless you mean it!
+  bool IsNotificationSystemInitialized();

[asargent_no_longer_on_chrome, 2011/10/07 21:25:34]

nit: "Notification" is becoming an overloaded term in the codebase, since we
already have the notifications sent via content/common/notification_service.h,
and the newly landing "App Notification" stuff that I'm working on. Maybe naming
this something along the lines of "Alert" (as you do in the extension_service.cc
file) would be better.

Also, when I see a method called IsFoo I usually think of it as performing some
work to get the answer, but not making a permanent state change. Consider
renaming to something like 
"InitializeAlertingIfNeeded" or "SetAlertSystemFirstRun".

[miket_OOO, 2011/10/07 22:38:22]

Done.

+
   // Is the extension with |extension_id| allowed by policy (checking both
   // whitelist and blacklist).
   bool IsExtensionAllowedByPolicy(const std::string& extension_id);