Solved function of "workspaces" as in the new opera

TalGarik

@iAN-CooG said in function of "workspaces" as in the new opera:

Absolutely not needed, it's another form of saved sessions.
Just open a session in another window and you'll have a window with work stuff and one window with everything else. Just save a session with the tabs you need, done, there are your "workspaces".
It's just a matter of using the tools you have already.

wrong understanding of workspaces - the correct comparison would be with two-level tabstack - the advantages of workspaces over tabstack in my experience:

workspaces remove/limit the tabs bar clutter better
you can move between them with customizable keyboard shortcuts (way more practical than from the sidebar with the mouse)
Safari groups have a huge IMHO limit, at least for people like me using PIP a lot: when you change group you lose the active PIP @LonM

DoctorG

Yes, this is my wish: I hope for feature like Opera's workspaces in 2023. I have no information when such feature will be released for Vivaldi.

cOAPerator

@DoctorG I thought they would do it by the end of this year.
This is the second year I've been asking for this feature))
It sucks if they don’t make it in time .. this feature will be a good gift for Vivaldi users for the new year

DoctorG

@cOAPerator We have all our pet features which are most important for us.

Pesala

Take a look at vivaldi://experiments Enable Workspaces.

ViWalter

@Pesala how to use it ? I already have Workspace in context menu of tabs when i want to move tab but there is empty field only

Pesala

@ViWalter I have no idea now to use the feature, and don't need it. Just pointing it out, because it will probably come to Vivaldi as a standard feature in due course.

TalGarik

@Pesala for a couple of minutes you made my day, alas not on MacOS

PS: good to see they are coming, in the long run I guess they will be available on MacOS too

AltCode

@TalGarik It's only present in the snapshot builds (also on macOS).

TalGarik

@AltCode thanks! then I will wait until it will come to the Stable version, I was just curious to see how it has been implemented, let's hope this feature and and the iOS version will come out soon.

ViWalter

So i managed it to work, but it still didn't help me organise my tabs. When you send a tab to a workspace, it is also displayed there in the group from which you sent it there. I decided to ungroup it directly in the workspace and that freed all the tabs from that group in the tab bar. More chaos. I'm waiting for sending tabs to the group via right click option...

RasheedHolland

@hummersf said in function of "workspaces" as in the new opera:

I find this Opera feature with the workspace handy aswell.

I never knew about Opera's Workspace feature, I don't know if I personally would need such a feature, I guess I need to check it out. However, if it works via the sidebar I have no interest since I actually hate having to use the sidebar, I try to avoid it as much as possible. I only use it sometimes to clear my downloads and for the reading list.

Pesala

@RasheedHolland Customise the toolbars. It is now possible to move any side panel to the Address Bar or Status Bar.

Zalex108

For the moment started the implementation as Top Button

https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/628821

Not sure how about now.

RasheedHolland

@Pesala said in function of "workspaces" as in the new opera:

@RasheedHolland Customise the toolbars. It is now possible to move any side panel to the Address Bar or Status Bar.

Thanks, didn't know about this. I have now moved the download and reading list button to the addressbar, or perhaps I will move them to the statusbar, I'm not sure yet. However, it will of course still open the sidebar, that's what I meant. I would prefer them to work just like the tab-based bookmarks and history manager.

jane.n

@RasheedHolland, instead of moving the Downloads and Reading List Panel buttons to another toolbar, add new Downloads and Reading List pop up menu buttons from the list of options in the Navigation Toolbar section of the Toolbar Editor.

To stay on topic, Workspaces menu can be moved around as well, but the feature is still very much a work in progress, hence also hidden behind Experiments even in the Snapshot.

If you do test Workspaces and come across bugs, annoyances or have some additional wishes, please report them in this thread, in a recent Snapshot blog or directly to the bug tracker.

RasheedHolland

@jane-n said in function of "workspaces" as in the new opera:

@RasheedHolland, instead of moving the Downloads and Reading List Panel buttons to another toolbar, add new Downloads and Reading List pop up menu buttons from the list of options in the Navigation Toolbar section of the Toolbar Editor.

To be honest, I didn't understand what you mean. I personally prefer to see these buttons in the statusbar. However, there is a problem, namely when I open the ''Downloads'' and ''Readling List'' panel and close them again via the statusbar buttons, the sidebar panel will stay visible.

To stay on topic, Workspaces menu can be moved around as well, but the feature is still very much a work in progress, hence also hidden behind Experiments even in the Snapshot.

Are you saying that Workspaces is already implemented in an upcoming Vivaldi version? In that case I won't be downloading Opera, I will see it when it shows up in Vivaldi.

Pesala

@RasheedHolland Set the panels to floating, and close them by clicking on the page, not the panel icon.

jane.n

@RasheedHolland There are popup alternatives available for Downloads and Reading List as well. To open the Toolbar Editor go to Vivaldi menu > View > Customize Toolbar. From there drag the relevant buttons from the list of Navigation Toolbar buttons to wherever you want them in the UI.

See a video about the Reading List popup here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2FQGc_x3B8.

If you have more questions about Downloads and Reading List, please start a new topic.

Ayespy

@RasheedHolland There is a Workspaces experiment in the latest Snapshot. People have been testing it.