Visible Close Button for Tiled Tabs
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When using tiled tabs, we have to hover on the tab stack, wait for the tabs overview to appear and then click on the close sign in order to close one of the tabs that is opened.
There is, of course, also the possibility to use the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+W or Ctrl+F4 to close the active tab.
For mouse users, it might be a good idea to add a close button on the top of each tile. I think it would be more user-friendly and more obvious for the users to have it directly visible on their screen.
Close button that could be added to tiled tabs :
Second example :
On the right click context menu (Close tab option added) when clicking on the tiled tab the user wants to close
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For me it doesn't make difference, close button appear when hovering the mouse:)
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@ornorm For me, the close button appears on the tab stack as soon as I hover the stack with the mouse cursor. Clicking it will close the active tab in the stack. If you disable Tab Popup Thumbnails, the title of the stack will show which is the active tab.
That is still the case if the popup thumbnails are enabled. With a large stack, there's a short delay before the thumbnails are displayed for the first time. Afterwards, they pop up almost instantly.
I don't see any problem with always showing the close button. If the tab stack has been renamed, there might be some doubt regarding which tab is active.
Perhaps the top button should close the entire stack?
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@pesala For sure with tab stacks. When the tabs are tiled, you first need to have one of your tab active to be able to close it. You can't close the tabs "on the fly". Let me know if the explanation isn't precise enough.
Edit : I see the word tile has been removed from the title and from the text. The feature request was specifically concerning the tiled tab stacks. -
@ornorm said in Visible Close Button for Stacked Tabs:
You can't close the tabs "on the fly"
Of couse you can. Enable Close Tab on Double Click.
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you first need to have one of your tab active to be able to close it.
So no, you can't close the tab on the fly...
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@ornorm The screenshot on the initial post all those tabs can be closed using double click .....
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@ornorm Your screen shot confused me. Feel free to edit your post to clarify whether you're talking about stacked and tiled tabs or just tiled tabs.
Either way, I see the close button on hovering the active tab.
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@pesala Let him know by himself...
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@lamarca It is important for others, especially the developers, to be able to understand what the problem is, to see if it is something that needs fixing and how best to improve it.
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@pesala Of course it's important, we can help him and also encourage him to think by himself
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@pesala New screenshot added to make it a bit more clear.
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@ornorm Good one.
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@ornorm I just don't get it. The tiled tabs have no title bar to place the close button on. Your new screenshot shows a close button on the page content itself. However, there is already a close button on the tab just as soon as you point the mouse cursor to it.
In the case of tab stacks, or tiled tab stacks, the close button will close the active tab, but to close the inactive tabs, you have to wait for the Tab Popup Previews to appear to use the close button on the bottom of the tab preview. Otherwise, you have to activate the tab that you want to close first, which is more awkward. That is why I thought you meant tab stacks and not tiled tabs.
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@pesala Yes. It is indeed the objective of this feature request. You did get the idea.
Indeed, my screenshot shows the close buttons on the page content itself (which is not the way it should be implemented in reality of course, it is to illustrate the idea). -
@ornorm If a close button on the page content is not how it should be implemented, then what do you suggest? On the illustrated Vivaldi forum pages, for example, the button might be obscuring the user's profile icon and blocking access to the menu, depending on the webpage zoom level.
Sorry to be a pest, but there does need to be a clear goal to aim at.
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@ornorm You can close the tabs using double click, Vivaldi already has that feature, works for Tab Stack and Page Tiling.
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@pesala said in Visible Close Button for Tiled Tabs:
In the case of tab stacks, or tiled tab stacks, the close button will close the active tab,
Please, Enable Close Tab on Double Click, try on Stacks and Tiled. That X is pretty ugly :p
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@lamarca I have double-click enabled. The close button does not display until the tab is hovered with the cursor.
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@pesala For tiled, double click on the tab.