Custom Speed Dial thumbnails – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1.10.862.6
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@newscpq: Google has it's own kind of Spatial Navigation, which was colliding with Vivaldi's, so Vivaldi's was switched off for these Google pages.
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it would be nice to add a url to custom thumbnail image, not only local file.
the image from web can be updated from time to time -
Custom Speed Dial thumbnail is nice! But after I restarted Vivaldi, custom speed dial thumbnail images disappear! Is this bug??
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@pesala: I guess my 1920x1080 wasn't big enough for more than 8 columns. I thought the speed dial would readjust to smaller thumbnail to fit 12 column
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@Gwen-Dragon said in Custom Speed Dial thumbnails – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1.10.862.6:
For custom images Vivaldi stores only the link to the physical storage in its settings.
Just my opinion :
While it would take a bit more disk space, it would make sense for Vivaldi to use a copy of these images, re-sampled if necessary to the max. size used by thumbnails (e.g. if the source image is huge, so it would take less space).
Advantages :
- Resembles the usual way many software use (for instance, when setting a Windows wallpaper, it is copied elsewhere and you can delete the source) ;
- It would allow a user to sync them too, once sync is implemented and deployed (I wouldn't expect Vivaldi to sync files out of its own profile between my PCs, if it decided to sync the original location of the files, which may not even be possible (think drive letters on Windows, for instance, if PCs are set up differently)).
Drawbacks :
- Editing the image would require setting it again, whereas with the current mechanism it will probably automatically update itself once you restart Vivaldi.
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@gwen-dragon: Thank you for replying! I thinked selected images were copied to setting folder. So, after I selected images, I deleted these images.
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@kyu3a exactly, see my previous reply on this same thread
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/17235/custom-speed-dial-thumbnails-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-1-10-862-6/125?page=7 -
@Gwen-Dragon
Thanks for the info ! We'll se in time then
(Also, nice workaround by putting files in the user profile folder, didn't think of that)
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I would assume Vivaldi to store them as well. But hey it's a welcome start, and a snapshot after all. Really, been wishing for this since the first time i used a speed dial. Tiny page previews are completely useless to me. It does nothing for me in OS's either when switching programs. But then at least the preview is current!
All that's needed is a label/logo. Clean and to the point. If it would just show the domain name in large bold type with a box around it, that would already be better than page previews if you ask me.
But, if it's going to be fancy. Maybe it can crawl the url for header images that would potentially be logos, then the user could just choose one, and if it would automatically show a crop box - cut it to size as well. Then store it locally as PNG and on Vivaldi Sync.
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@IcePanther I also agree with this. It would also improve portability. If you move the Vivaldi Portable installation folder to another PC, and images are kept in the profile then they are more likely to be successfully ported, then if they reside in some random external location.
Hope the devs consider changing the behavior, or ideally allow for relative paths support. That way we could get the best of both worlds, both reference original external files, and allow for automatic updating, and if relative paths were to be introduced they would make portability easier.
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In my opinion, there are way more important improvements needed than storing custom speed dial thumbs. Now we have this option, we can make our own images, and store them wherever we wish. I just save them to my Vivaldi root folder for now. I don't even bother with backups as I can regenerate them from the source file that I used to create them.
Advanced features can come later, but for now, the developers should move on to other issues rather than spending more time on this.
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I just had a strange, first time experience. Suddenly Vivaldi started to download all links I clicked - instead of showing the page...
In the end I stopped and restarted Vivaldi, and everything is fine again ...Win7x64 Vx32
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@d0j0p: Good point, makes sense. Have you reported it maybe? If not, could you report and provide issue number? Thanks.
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@dystasia: Hi, could you report these ideas (each one separately) via the vivaldi.com/bugreport form?
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@Pesala said in Custom Speed Dial thumbnails – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1.10.862.6:
Advanced features can come later
I also think, over time it will gain improvements, but it does not have to be a priority! What I wanted was to have an option to hide * x *, because sometimes I accidentally delete it.
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@JuniorSilva30 Yes, and now we need an option to hide the change thumbnail image icon, as well as the delete and refresh icons. They are useful when first setting up Speed Dials, but distracting and potentially problematic once you have carefully configured your custom thumbnails. The right-click menu is adequate for occasional use.
@Pesala said in Feature requests for 1.9 / 1.10:
Option to Hide Icons on Speed Dial Thumbnails
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Hi guys! Will you ever implement an optional proper, native GUI on every platform you support? I mean the scroll bars, context menus, the tab bar being merged with the title bar of the window and such. Without any color schema, just perfect fitting into the given OS.
Since the guys at Opera just trashed everything they had with the GUI, it would be a good reason to switch.
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@Nekomajin I would love to see Vivaldi implemented with native widgets.
That said, the reality is that UI code is a pain to write, especially when you have to implement custom widgets for things like "Tab Stacks" using native toolkits... and not just once but multiple times for each platform that you support. With a platform-agnostic approach using web technologies, new concepts can be implemented faster, the same code can be applied to all platforms, and all platforms get the same features at the same time. It allows a small development team to be much more agile and productive.
Maybe they can figure out a "hybrid approach" that will allow them to implement more nativeness over time while also improving platform integration. Or maybe not... but a person can dream!
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@bdot: Known and multi-multi-multi reported bug. As a workaround, use ctrl+n for a new window instead.