Show icons in context menu
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It will be nice to see what people come up with now that this feature is added
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it would still be better if we can actually get some official icons by default--at least for the most used commands. there is still so much vivaldi can improve upon graphically. it always feels like their graphics team members are underutilized.
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@TsunamiZ , agree, as long as these default icons are not something flat and colourless and tasteless, but rather like in the good Win7-times
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@Agych
I prefer the flat icons. Although, it would be rather cool to support custom icon libraries over the whole GUI. Similar to localized text files. -
@Pesala said in Show icons in context menu:
In the latest snapshot one can now add emoji to the context menus.
Is there a tutorial? Can't find any settings.
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@Dancer18
with windows select rename and hitWIN + .
to select your emoticon from the native win 10 menu -
@derDay Thank you! I will look into.
And how does it work in Linux (Mint)?EDIT//
There are not too many emojis in the Win-list so far.
I prefer to wait for integrating this feature in Vivaldi and only having to check it (or not). -
@Dancer18
Use emojipedia to search by keyword. -
It will be great to have an option to attach your own icon image to every context menu entry.
I would love to use Google Icons for that, there's a ton of them, for each imagenable action
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Link websites in the Vivaldi Button menu
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/64933/link-websites-in-the-vivaldi-button-menu
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@stardepp
This is not quite what was requested here. How about entries like "new tab", "reload", "copy link" and many others?PS: By the way I just noticed that "send to device" entry already has a nice icon - so perhaps it shouldn't be too much of a problem to add more?
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@emvaized How do you like it?
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@stardepp
Actually, not so much... Looking at your screenshot only, all icons have different thickness, different style. Some icons don't describe the associated action clear enough...Overall it feels like a forced hack instead of a solution.
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@stardepp
This is more a joke than a workaround. Yes, it works, but it's not ergonomic. -
Icons in context menus, I've been waiting for this for years. It's utterly barbaric that we don't have this in 2021. Customisable context menus with large (or small for some) icons are the future. Older people, people over 40, will have much easier time in using some easily identifiable icons.
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@mouravieffantiableism I am well over forty, colour-blind, and need glasses, but designing easily identifiable icons for every action is impossible. Larger text would be more useful than icons for me.
Opera 12.18 had icons in menus many years ago, but not for every item, and they were skin dependent so not necessarily monochrome like this.
Edge is similar; Firefox has no icons, except for back, forward, reload, and bookmark page, which have no text.
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@pesala said in Show icons in context menu:
designing easily identifiable icons for every action is impossible.
Absolutely not. This is just an arbitrary statement. A program like World of Warcraft or Diablo has thousands of icons, so there's is no reason anyone can not have as many icons as he wants; how important it is to devs is up to them, but people can make their requests in peace. If you prefer text, that's on you. Let people have their feature requests in peace without invalidation.
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@mouravieffantiableism said in Show icons in context menu:
This is just an arbitrary statement.
Sorry, but your argument is not valid. It is impossible to design hundreds of icons that are easily recognisable.
If anyone plays WOW or uses Vivaldi many hours every day they may become familiar with most of the icons used in the UI, but ordinary users will not instantly recognise what an icon means. A few dozen only are so widely used in multiple programs that the majority of computer-savvy users will recognise them at first glance.
Look at the screenshot from Opera 12.18. Apart from Bookmark Page, Forward, Fast Forward, and Rewind, the others would probably be easily identifiable to most users. The others, not so much. Icons designed for Inspect Element ... Edit Site Preferences, etc., are unlikely to gain universal recognition.
Check out the context menu from Edge without the text to see which icons are easily recognisable.
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No one is asking for hundreds of icons here, I think. Anyway, it's common human history that easily idenfiable icons are possible. Now please stop going from thread to thread searching reasons to shoot down anything I say.