Customize Appearance of Menus and Scrollbars

[aecfxi]

I came here to share that bright white context menus and scrollbars were the biggest 'theme-breaking' aspects of Vivaldi on my darkened KDE linux system that I want to see fixed.

For those looking for an immediate workaround, I tested a number of extensions and this extension gave me the absolute best scrollbars: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/modern-scrollbar/bgfofngpplpmpijncjegfdgilpgamhdk

The other scrollbar extension that was linked earlier was horrific - you couldn't even enter a custom color hex code, you were stuck crudely eyeballing a color selection tool to match your theme and I wasn't having it.

If anybody has a work-around for context menus, I would be happy to learn of it.

[LonM]

Vivaldi has had dark context menus for a while now - is this request complete?

[TsunamiZ]

@LonM

nope, vivaldi doesn't have official theme support for dark context menus.

[Omix1]

this is soo sad, that we have Powerfull right-click menu but, not most Appearance customizable !

[alansharkey]

FireFox can do it with code like this to close up the menu items:

/*** Tighten up drop-down/context/popup menu spacing ***/

menupopup > menuitem, menupopup > menu {
  padding-block: 4px !important;
}
:root {
  --arrowpanel-menuitem-padding: 4px 8px !important;

Can Vivaldi consider something similar?

Alan

[Pesala]

With the release of Chromium 124 with its ridiculous large fonts and wide menu spacing, this feature becomes a MUST HAVE feature, not just NICE TO HAVE

[g_bartsch]

@Pesala Yes. I would like the ability to set the line height menus items not only because wide spacing look ugly but if items were tighter vertically I'd not need to move the mouse as much. This would be so nice when working with long menus like bookmarks.

[Pesala]

@g_bartsch There is now a Setting in Appearance, Menu for a compact layout in both the latest Snapshot and Stable. This may not last very long, depending on what the Chromium developers do.

[stardepp]

@g_bartsch

[mib2berlin]

@stardepp
Hi, this is a really big arrow.

[stardepp]

@mib2berlin ...created with Greenshot (open source, for Windows):

https://github.com/greenshot/greenshot

[g_bartsch]

@Pesala Thank you. I'm glad the devs made this patch. I'd LOVE the option to be able to tighten the line spacing between items. In these menus AND in the Bookmark panel. I like to see as much information as possible without the need of scrolling and - especially in the case of a large number of bookmarks - that's what tighter line spacing, and even a smaller font size, would allow.

[deelan]

Sadly it appears that Vivaldis "Compac Layout" option does not revert the context menus to be excactly the same height as they were before the big Chromium refresh or as they are by disabling the 2023 Refresh flags.

I noticed this because I am a web power user and by now I pretty much nailed down the distances I need to travel by mouse and even a small change like this throws me off.

Chrome(ium)s increasingly questionable design choices are what led me to switch to Vivaldi as the most customizable and therefore user-friendliest web browser I know, and therefore I would very much appreciate more options to customize the right click context menu.

+1 For this Feature Request

[Pesala]

@deelan For greater efficiency, remove any items you don’t use, and move those that you use frequently closer to the top. Settings, Appearance, Menu Customization. I fear that we may have to wait a long time to get the requested feature — it is already one of the oldest and most requested features, but is only tagged as Nice to Have, indicating that it is not high on the list of things to do.

[barbudo2005]

@Pesala

And start using the ones you can through Mouse Gestures or Shortcuts.

[noopiscool]

why are you all doing a whole ui refresh and STILL leaving these as stock chromium?

[ekozcifci]

@Pesala said in Customize Appearance of Menus and Scrollbars:

depending on what the Chromium developers do.

I can't understand how it still isn't being addressed. It's a big part of the UI, and if it is due to Chromium restrictions, then how can Edge do this? Developers, please bring it here too...

Here is Edge Context Menu on W11

[mib2berlin]

@ekozcifci
Hi, they have ten times more developers at least.
Set it to compact in Appearance is fine to me, it bothers me at all.
We have a mod in the modification section, iirc you can set font size, space and so forth for the menus.

Cheers, mib