Solved Show All Windows and their Tabs in the Window Panel

[dude99]

We also need a proper Window Manager like notes/bookmark/history, not just panel.

[pauloaguia]

@dude99 Not sure what you mean by "proper", but you can open vivaldi://notes or vivaldi://bookmarks in a separate tab, if that's what you mean (I couldn't find an equivalent address for the window manager, though).

[dude99]

@pauloaguia Exactly. There isn't a Window Manager for Vivaldi.

The panel is only good for managing tabs inside a same window. If we want to manage all tabs in multiple windows TOGETHER, we need columns & rows to get the job done comfortably. And that required more space than a panel can provide.

Imagine 2 windows with many tabs lining side by side in column/row, then you can drag a tab from a window & drop it directly to another window at the exact position you wanted in one step. You can't do this with panel, it will be similar to moving bookmark from one folder into another folder inside panel, it could be a pain to repeat it over & over.

Currently this is doable by tiling 2 windows side by side, but it's very clunky & cumbersome.

[WildEnte]

Just as a remark, Opera 12 had this. (Of course it did)

[MoosMas]

Any updates on this? It would be a really useful feature to have

Edit: Being able to rename windows in such a Window Manager would also be handy

[Pesala]

@moosmas With 4,500 5,486 feature requests, and a small team, those needed by few users or difficult to implement may have to wait for a long time. Wherever you see that a feature is tagged as In Progress, it may get done this year rather than next.

[WildEnte]

Since mail is only available in the first window that is opened, this feature request is more important unless mail starts to become available in all windows. It is really not so easy to identify the window that contains mail. User @thepeche
said here he had 8 windows open - happy window hunting https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/64490/m3-changing-the-display-window/4?_=1627723342286

EDIT: Fun workaround:
Open https://vivaldi.com/bk/ebay-de (to open ebay and earn Vivaldi some money)
right-click that tab and select "move tab" -> and select the first window
hit F2 and type "ebay" to switch to the tab that was just moved to the first window

this actually worked in my 15 second testing. Sadly the "move tab" command from the tab context menu is not available in the command chains, otherwise that would have been the most funny command chain yet. Switch to window containing mail while sending money to Vivaldi.

[BOUSILLOR]

Casting my vote here too since the "session" management is lacking atm, using multiple window is the fad!
Also as a linux user, multiple desktops tend to lead to multiple browser windows. Not because it's messy, I swear! more because you can sort your workflow.
A simple "separator" as the one in signet would do, and of course I guess with masking the "privacy" one, since from what I read people seems to use it more as way to not temper their "session" with temporary browsing.

[planedrop]

Figured I'd revive this thread a little and say I too would love to see this feature, would be super useful for huge numbers of tabs, which Vivaldi is obviously the best at handling, making it an even more relevant feature.

[jumpsq]

Make window panels windows panels again.

Make Windows, not Microsoft.

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I currently wonder how private and guest windows should be handled within the windows panel.
In O12, private windows and private tabs are just shown and I believe that's how I'd want it to be. I don't know if this would require some fundamental architectural reworking. But for a single window, also each tab acts as its own process, so probably it's not even that complicated to build.

[WildEnte]

@jumpsq said in Show All Windows and their Tabs in the Window Panel:

In O12, private windows and private tabs are just shown and I believe that's how I'd want it to be.

Agreed. Having these windows open is not a secret on your own PC where the OS alt+Tab and other means will show them just like any other application window. Private is just about your data privacy towards websites and the data stored on your computer.

If it's difficult to implement, just start without private window in the panel. That's still better than no windows in the panel...

[ChadGarion25]

This is something I was expecting would be standard as I've been adapting to Vivaldi from Chrome. I was expecting an interface similar to session buddy extension where all the active windows are displayed with their tabs and sessions can be saved and recalled.

Also, this feature would pair well with the ability to name browser windows, similar to Chrome, so if you have a persistent window with set tabs on a project, it's easier to fine when using Alt Tab or switching desktops (see here for that feature request)

[WildEnte]

@ChadGarion25 rejoice, the latest snapshot now has a windows panel that finally shows all tabs in all windows. This also makes finding the window with the Mail tab SO much easier...

[yurkoy]

Anyone knows how to disable this feature in the latest snapshot and make Vivaldi show only tabs from current window in "Window" panel (old behavior)?

[Pesala]

@yurkoy There is currently no way to disable it, but you can collapse the trees of other windows to focus on the tabs in the active window.

Shortcut \ will collapse the entire tree.

[LonM]

This was completed in the latest vivaldi 5.7 - https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-5-7-on-desktop/

[TeaBread]

@Pesala this works very poorly. If you switch from the window panel to another panel and back, it takes whatever changes you did in another window, as below.

1. Start with two windows, A and B
2. In the window panel of window A, collapse the tree for window B (showing only window A's tabs)
3. In window B, collapse the tree for window A
4. In window A, switch to the bookmarks panel then back to the window panel
5. Observe that window B's tree is shown and window A's tree is collapsed (because that was the last change made in any window)

[kubamiszcz]

is it possible to see only tabs in active window? or quickly focus on active tab?
now i'm lost or need to scroll continuously to find my active tab, or collapse/expand windows because i dont know what window I actually see, and this small dot as marker for me it is useless

can i toggle back to see only tabs in my active window?

[kubamiszcz]

@Pesala yep, and when you click on another window then you need to collapse previous and expand active one...

maybe if it detects switching windows and collapse all but active by default?

or simply provide toggle to disable it

[propiro]

Is there any way to revert this change? Hidden option or anything? I actually really want the WINDOW panel to display just the tab list. Alternatively, a separate panel that lists only tabs as a lists of tab names would be good.