Solved V 6.7 | Context Menu | Rollback Font / Size

nomadic

@Pesala said in 6.7 | Big Space in Menus:

Settings, Appearance, Menu, Compact Layout.

The change of the default spacing is due to a change in the underlying Chromium code. The quick fix by Vivaldi may not work for long if the Chromium developers remove some legacy code.

yngve

@Cranker The right addressee for your comments is the Chromium team [1] [2] . They made the change, and AFAICT they are not backing down.

At present it is possible to re-enable the old style menu font and style, in the Menu settings, which is mostly possible because the old one is still in the code and easy to re-enable, but considering that the Chromium team is rapidly removing the old configuration ....

Cranker

@nomadic @yngve

Thanks a lot. It works.
I am glad that Vivaldi team has found a workaround to the issue.
I don't know what chromium devs were thinking when they created and approved this change. Will just hope that either they will be forced to revert changes by community, or at least that the workaround will keep working. Using this new style menu is a real pain.

FunkeymonkeyTTR

The new menus are so unbelievably terrible, could you be more specific on how I can enable the old style?

also I'm not sure why the defence is always "chromium changed it" you guys run this browser I'm sure you can just manually change the awful coding those guys try and introduce, hate to use opera as a refence but they were able to apply a significantly worse style to their browser that is also using chromium.

Pesala

@FunkeymonkeyTTR Settings, Appearance, Menu, Compact Layout.

Vivaldi adds a layer of code on top of the Chromium core to allow more customisation. If changes are introduced in the underlying code, it takes a lot of work to fix as it has to be done across all platforms, and maintained for every update of the Chromium code.

The Vivaldi Team consists of 58 people, two dogs, and a cat. Only 29 of them are developers. Chrome, Microsoft, Apple, etc., have much larger teams.

enzon19

I'm glad that the Vivaldi team had sense and added that option. But in Windows 11, I miss a lot the rounded corners on the menu, and also the color is different from the old.

Meanwhile, I would recommend using those flags:

When they are gone, I'll probably use the compact layout.

I really don't understand Google.

bariton

@enzon19 said in Context menu:

I really don't understand Google.

I am afraid everything is moving to touch screens. Fat fingers need more space.
But yes, not clear why they are doing this to desktops.

sgunhouse

@bariton Even some desktops have touchscreens, and many laptops. But the mouse or touchpad is easier to reach and more precise.

bariton

@sgunhouse Yes, I totally prefer the mouse.

love2dgame

I used "Compact menu". Effective, not completely.

stardepp

TheFrozenSlime

Thanks for the screenshot, and the pointers. I got a larger monitor recently (from a 21.5' to a 27'), and I have a lot of bookmarks, so part of the appeal of moving to a larger monitor was more screen space for the context menus. The redesigned context menus take up just as much screen space on the larger monitor as the old layout did on the old monitor! I will be very sad when this design gets forced upon me... the initial Chrome redesign getting forced back in 2018 was the whole reason I switched to Vivaldi in the first place!

Pesala

@TheFrozenSlime The menus are customisable. It makes more sense than ever to remove rarely used items, or add some subfolders. The fix will not work for long.

Bookmarks also need to be better organised, as scrolling through long lists is inefficient compared to having two or more subfolders that do not need to scroll at all.

I recommend 20 or fewer bookmarks/items in any folder before creating a new subfolder.

Access Keys can help if you’re an avid keyboard user and don’t like to use a mouse or trackpad.

TheFrozenSlime

@Pesala Oh, I'm aware. I've got bookmarks that have been there for a decade, and haven't been used in just as long. I could probably get rid of half my bookmarks if I cut the ones I don't actively use. I may just be lazy, or perhaps part me me doesn't want to remove them, almost like they're some sort of memorial of where I've come from. Is that weird?

I do have subfolders, but even those have 40+ items in some of them.

Pesala

@TheFrozenSlime My rarely used bookmarks are not displayed on my Bookmark Bar. I have to use the Bookmark Menu to access them.

Create a Bookmarks Bar folder containing just the bookmarks that you use fairly regularly.

One can put off tidying up only for so long, then the mess starts to get in the way of productivity. Seeing that this change to menu spacing is likely to become permanent, it may pay off to spend a few hours cleaning up, sooner rather than later to keep ahead of the game.

It is your choice; some people can work fine in a messy environment.

mib2berlin

@TheFrozenSlime
Hi, there are extensions to check bookmarks if the page even exist or delete duplicates.
I had thousands of bookmarks in the past and 50% was outdated anyway.
The company went bankrupt, the address changed or the site owner was dead.

Cheers, mib

RogerWilco

@mib2berlin

Thank goodness. Required a browser restart, but the information density is now back to normal.

I wonder why companies think that it is a good thing to roll out such changes without asking the users which one they prefer, especially if the application was already installed and configured to meet the user's preferences.

And this change did not only affect the context menu, but also the entire menu bar at the top.

SkyBorg

@FinderEx said in V 6.7 | How to rollback the context menu font ?:

Does anyone know how to return the previous font of the context menu?

It takes up a lot of screen space, the previous one worked fine.

Agree what we have now is huge and should have NEVER been made this way. Not only does it take a lot of screen reastate, but it also has to be scrolled if you rightclick on the right element to get a context menu as you can see from the tiny arrows at the top and bottom of the context menu in the second image.

SkyBorg

@mib2berlin said in V 6.7 | How to rollback the context menu font ?:

@FinderEx
Hi, search for "compact" in the settings search field.

Cheers, mib

Simply why was it changed at all? It was perfectly fine the way it was. Txt not too small or too large. Increase the text make it and the context menu box look out of place. Someone was not thinking.

mib2berlin

I like the new menus very much and this was not a decision of the Vivaldi team, the menus are Chromium code.
This setting will not last, the Chromium developer will remove the old menu code at some point.
The Vivaldi team need to write the complete menu code from scratch to make it editable, for example.

Cheers, mib