Double click on free space in the Window Panel opens new tab

[swiggi]

Yes. It supports the argument for a double click feature very well that it is the top most choice of the context menu.

[Pathduck]

@swiggi Yes, but what do you do when there's no more free space?

[DoctorG]

Double-click on empty space in a program's list to get a new document/window/tab or something else is unusual for most users. I think, such will not be implemented.
But who knows what users will get and like in the future. Perhaps computer-aided (AI) typing and searching.

[Pesala]

Double-click on empty space on tab bar opens a new tab, but only if the tab bar is not at the top - then it restores/maximises the window.

[DoctorG]

@Pesala said in Double click on free space in the Window Panel opens new tab:

Double-click on empty space on tab bar opens a new tab

I guess it is a bug (i remember a fixed from 2017), not a feature.

[Pesala]

@DoctorG I don't see it as a bug. The Tab Bar at the top has two duties: Tab Bar and Window Title Bar. Fixing one thing would break another.

[swiggi]

@Pathduck Use OneTab

[swiggi]

@Pesala Last I checked, around 30 million downloads of Notepad++ just to mention one noteable example of opening a new tab with double click in empty area following tabs.

[Pesala]

@swiggi Notepad++ has both a Tab Bar and a Windows Title Bar. Vivaldi has only one bar fulfilling both functions, unless you use the Windows native appearance, then you can double-click to open a new tab.

[bariton]

@swiggi To open a new tab, I prefer to use the mouse DOWN gesture.
Quick and simple.

[swiggi]

@bariton I don't know how that works?

[swiggi]

@Pesala I'm not referring to the tab bar.

[bariton]

@swiggi said in Double click on free space in the Window Panel opens new tab:

@bariton I don't know how that works?

Vivaldi supports mouse gestures for various commands.
To perform a mouse gesture, press and hold the right mouse button, move the mouse in a pattern, release the mouse button.

To open a new tab: on a web page, press and hold the right mouse button, move the mouse down a few centimeters, release the mouse button.

Another handy gesture is "down right", like a "L", to close the tab.

You can find the predefined gestures in settings -> mouse, and you can create your own ones there.

[Pesala]

@swiggi I know, but I was replying to DoctorG

Mouse Gestures are convenient, but remembering them may be an issue if you define more than a dozen or so.

Assign the simplest one stroke gestures to the features you use very frequently.

[DoctorG]

@Pesala said in Double click on free space in the Window Panel opens new tab:

Double-click on empty space on tab bar opens a new tab, but only if the tab bar is not at the top

Oh!, yes, i see; nice feature, i agree.

Then such is really missing on horizontal tab bar.