Context Menu in Opened Bookmarks Bar Folders
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Have they still not added context menu to folders on the bookmark bar?
My work flow heavily requires manipulating bookmarks within folders. The folders are categories of bookmarks and the bookmarks are more often items to remember and delete rather than permanent "I visit this website a lot". Folders are categories going across, bookmarks are items going down. In the tab and panel everything is going down without directional distinction. I regularly move and delete bookmarks within folders.
I hate having to use the bookmark tab or panel. Not only is there no directional distinction between items. It is also more effort to use. I do not even like having any sort of panel. I want minimum use of space for anything that is not the website context. I could press a key to open the bookmark panel. Then I would need to press a different key to close all panels as pressing the bookmark panel key only closes the bookmark panel and leaves open the panel menu.
Whatever, I am going to use a different web browser that fits my workflow.
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@mrghostmark The panels don't need to be left open.
A quick press of F4 or a mouse gesture is all that is needed to show or hide them.
The Bookmarks Bar is great for quick access to frequent sites, and for quickly adding the active tab to a folder, but it's not designed for organising, renaming, and deleting bookmarks.
Visiting sites is something I do many times a day; editing bookmarks is something I do now and then.
Vivaldi is still relatively new and the Team is small. People have been waiting for this request since the Bookmarks Bar was first introduced about three years ago, but I understand that it takes a lot of work to code.
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@matthews2077 This is a big wish for me. If I might add, accessing the context menu in sub-menus with use of another key (alt/shift/ctrl) might be a way to facilitate this without changing the current function (open in new tab)
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The related feature request Drag Configurable Bookmarks Bar Folders would be more useful to me than a right-click menu.
- Editing or deleting bookmarks is something I do rather rarely
- Reorganising bookmarks is something I do more often.
I have no idea whether they would be easy to fix at the same time, or require completely different code.
What is clear after nine months¹ and over 50 upvotes is that it is not a simple thing to add.
¹ Actually, much longer than nine months. I created this feature request not because I need it myself, but because it was a frequent request in previous feature request threads. Drag and Drop support was also requested ages ago. Four years ago: @stardust said in (History of) Vivaldi Feature Requests:
- Bookmarks drop down menu on the Address Bar with full d&d support
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I totally agree that it is really necessary to allow right click context menu for bookmark sub-folders. If I want to delete a bookmark from a drop-down menu in the bookmarks bar, I have to go through a long, tedious process.
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This is a critical important opportunity, it must be! I hope the developers will hear us!
Mod Edit: Threads merged.
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@AlexZorg The developers heard us about three years ago, soon after the Bookmarks Bar was first introduced. Clearly, a lot of users want this, but it is not a critical issue, as there are other ways to sort, rename, and delete bookmarks.
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@Pesala in a totally annoying way, yes
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@siegson This is true, but it's not something you can flip a switch or wave a wand, and it works. It does have to coded by hand, line by line, until it works. It's some thousands of lines of code.
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@Ayespy ok patience mode back on again
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First time user of Vivaldi. First time use of this forum as well.
I came here searching for an answer to a context menu for bookmarks in a folder on the bookmark bar. It seems quite a few people would love a context menu not only on the bookmarks directly on the bar, but also those within a folder on the bar. This should not be thousands of lines of code imo!
I found this thread because of this issue, so yes, the wording of the first post may be not perfect, but it does the job!
After trying Vivaldi two days I am going to try it out multiple weeks if it measures up to Chrome in usability. The only thing missing for now is this context menu.
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@erottier said in Context Menu in Opened Bookmarks Bar Folders:
This should not be thousands of lines of code imo!
Yes, we understand that the opinion of any number of users would have it be an easy job. Factually, the responsible developer (who unfortunately has other jobs ahead of this one) knows better. It does in fact have to be written from scratch, based on others' code, and "thousands" of lines of code may be a rash understatement.
We completely sympathize with your frustration on this score, and it is actually receiving a good deal of attention back stage.
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We completely sympathize with your frustration on this score, and it is actually receiving a good deal of attention back stage.
Good to hear. Thanks Ayespy.
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@Pesala definitely! I honestly did not see this missing feature comming! It's like Vivaldi is stuck in alpha-phase with some features, and already in release-phase with others. I just want the old opera back...
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@thomassawyer Yeah, the feature is done. Thank you, guys, very very very much!
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@drewx as its in the latest snapshot, this thread will be marked as done when 2.4 is released as a stable version. Which should hopefully be soon , as is entering the final bug fix phase.
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2.4 is now released, and this functionality is available in vivaldi.
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yup, thanks for the heads up
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Yay Vivaldi!