Why we revamped our navigation menu
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@axk: "a more spacious modern address bar, with some bigger font, like other browsers have done" -
HELL NO!!! If I want that I would use those other space stealing browsers!
One of the more annoying browser (and other software) gui trends was wasting space for no good reason. -
@AXK Allowing users to Choose Font for GUI is the way to go here. Opera 12.18 has it; one can choose the typeface as well as the font size.
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@potmeklecbohdan Sorry for the alphabet soup Toolbar Buttons, Mouse Gestures, KeyBoard & Quick Commands
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@LonM said in Why we revamped our navigation menu:
Beyond testing that it works... not at all
I just realised that there is one item which I can't access outside of the menu > check for updates. That would be great if implemented.
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@LonM The Updates tab of the Settings dialogue seems like an obvious place to look for it.
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In the menu i would add more icons to the commands, as for the Panels, Settings, Capture, Pinned Tabs and About.
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The blog mentions some people not having tabs visible at all to save screen real estate. I'd be one of those people but when i uncheck tabs and check vivaldi/menu button rather than horizontal menu i just get an empty bar with the button at one end taking up the same vertical space. I suspect its unfixable or you'd have done it already but if not it would be great if the menu button could be movable, down to the address bar etc. Leaving just the single address bar selectable, but thats flying cars pie in the sky stuff everything seems great in the present.
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@christiehmalry It is possible — just look in the mods subforum.
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@AXK Sorry if Opera for hipsters is your favourite browser but in my opinion its menu and its UI is a big pile of and their designers are clueless, that's why the changed the UI so far about a hundred times, forcing their users to cope with every stupid decision they make and in 2 versions revert. Vivaldi's design language is very consistent and miles ahead. The thing where Vivaldi excels of course is that it lets you do whatever you want, so you can make it look like opera, everything you need is in the modding sub-forum, like for example: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/39766/vivaldi-like-opera-v0-1
P.S. Google Chrome removed so many context menu entries because 6% of its users was using them, guess which is the browser that follows the same design logic too... spoiler alert: Opera
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@potmeklecbohdan Oh excellent thanks mate i'll get right on it
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Now that the menu got so much love and became so much better, its OS / Desktop Environment integration became even more relevant. Maybe it works on macOS (or maybe not), but in Linux the integration with the global menu is missing (while works in Chromium). There is a feature request for that and maybe it could get some attention from now on
(For the context - Global application menu in KDE Plasma)
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@tlk that video is amazing Makes me a little sad that I won't put KDE but Cinnamon in my folks' PC which runs Windows 7 and is about to expire - thank god for that and Windows 10 filthy telemetry- which I have to unfortunately use because of games
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Perplexed to find the navigation menu was redesigned, yet when in button form it still can't be moved to the toolbar to free up the entire row of vertical space it takes up. It seems like this change was the appropriate time to fix that. Only about half of vivaldi's buttons are the new movable buttons and they can only be moved to a few limited locations, I'd really like to see that fixed especially for this one in particular.
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@deinonychuscowboy said in Why we revamped our navigation menu:
when in button form it still can't be moved to the toolbar to free up the entire row of vertical space it takes up
What OS are you using? It sits on the Tab Bar in Windows, along with the sync, trash, minimize, restore, and close buttons. It takes no extra vertical space.
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@OlgaA
in terms of “functionality and empowerment” -- can we ever count for a feature significantly demanded -- customizible right-click context menu?
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