Solved V 6.7 | Context Menu | Rollback Font / Size

mib2berlin

@SkyBorg
This setting is only a workaround, the next Chromium update can remove the flag the setting use.
This should never be a default setting.
I stop posting here now, it will not change.

exalted

Hi everyone,

My favorites menus just got bigger and wider all of a sudden. Is this something I can revert back to the old look?

Using 6.7.3329.17 here.

Thanks

DoctorG

@exalted Setting → Appearance → Compact Layout

exalted

@DoctorG
That did it. Thank you very much!

SkyBorg

I guess we will have to hope someone figures out how the HACK the font for the context menu. Bigger is not always better, and this is one of those cases that proves that.

g_bartsch

@mib2berlin I'll look for such an extension. I want to run it on my bookmarks. Have you got a favorite?

BunxBun

The update to V6.7 brought other browsers touchscreen UI with it. There is a compact menu option I found but that doesn't fix other UI elements such as the close all windows dialog box.

Is there anyway to disable this UI garbage? Where is the proper place to give feedback to Vivaldi to not continue like this? I thought I finally found a browser that wasn't going to pull this garbage but here we are.

gui16

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Pesala

@BunxBun It has been forced on us by the underlying Chromium code changes. The compact layout setting is just a temporary quick fix.

Complain to Chrome; it is not Vivaldi who did this, though touchpad users may prefer the wider spacing.

MineBill

What i'm getting from this whole thing is that the Vivaldi team has literally no control over their "own" browser, if you can call it that. It's been made perfectly clear that Google dictates how everything should look, work and feel. Such a shame.

Pesala

@MineBill Vivaldi built its own UI over the Chromium code, precisely to allow more control and customisation. However, they still have little control over the underlying code.

It is hard to fix a change like this because the Chromium code needs to be fixed by Vivaldi and maintained with each update of the underlying code.

Zalex108

@MineBill

Hi,
You have very few information about how this works.

Aside from Pesala's, learn about to understand it by reading the Blog and previous topics like

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/81166/pulling-the-plug-on-expired-operating-systems
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/79579/manifest-v3-webrequest-and-ad-blockers

and others.

RasheedHolland

@BunxBun said in Poor Desktop UI V6.7:

The update to V6.7 brought other browsers touchscreen UI with it. There is a compact menu option I found but that doesn't fix other UI elements such as the close all windows dialog box.

Is there anyway to disable this UI garbage? Where is the proper place to give feedback to Vivaldi to not continue like this? I thought I finally found a browser that wasn't going to pull this garbage but here we are.

Are you talking about the new window menus in Vivaldi 6.7? I see a weird change in style and text in the menubar and also when I right click on my tabbar. I assumed it was some kind of bug?

RasheedHolland

Never mind, I've already found a fix:

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/97187/v-6-7-how-to-rollback-the-context-menu-font/2

SkyBorg

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

What i'm getting from this whole thing is that the Vivaldi team has literally no control over their "own" browser, if you can call it that. It's been made perfectly clear that Google dictates how everything should look, work and feel. Such a shame.

Not even remotely accurate. Plenty of code from Chromium Vivaldi has not included to protect privacy alone. Then see @Pesala post right after yours.

npro

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

Complain to Chrome; it is not Vivaldi who did this

That's not a good argument though, Vivaldi is here the end-product, so all complaints should and naturally go towards it, Vivaldi has the "obligation" to fix its problems if it wants to continue offering its distinct, defined concept and language. Otherwise the picture is not good as clearly shown in this thread and elsewhere.

npro

@SkyBorg Removing or blocking though. Changing underlying stuff needs to be proven by their actions in the cases like this one, and from what I read they won't or can't do it. In the bigger picture they can't fork Chromium so basically they are perpetual "slaves" to it.

npro

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

The update to V6.7 brought other browsers touchscreen UI with it. There is a compact menu option I found but that doesn't fix other UI elements such as the close all windows dialog box.

Is there anyway to disable this UI garbage?

https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/750005

Where is the proper place to give feedback to Vivaldi to not continue like this?

Here sounds right https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/97175/vivaldi-boosts-performance-with-memory-saver-and-auto-detects-feeds-with-its-feed-reader

Maybe here as well https://forum.vivaldi.net/category/204/let-s-talk-about-vivaldi

Crayder

This change is dumb. The menus and UI should be based on the native OS configuration. I have everything configured in my OS for my already bad eyesight. If I wanted things to be bigger, I'd tell my OS that in any case. The new menus are so utterly huge they don't fit on my ultrawide monitor.

Just counted, 20 menu items is the max I get now. This is absolutely awful.

BunxBun

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