New look, new feature – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3483.4

olli

@aaron: Is the dashboard forced for you? Here it opens last selected.

atlemo

@aaron: It will open the last used group. You can also drag to re arrange the order of these groups, so Dashboard can be first or last (or in between). There is also a new setting for this: Start Page Settings -> Keep Last Page

Aaron

@olli Feel sorry. My configuration file is the same as before, maybe it's not clean enough. I'll test it again.

Culip

Great! Are you guys planning to add shadows to the window and the drop-down menus of the menu bar in Vivaldi for Linux? I'm using Plasma 6 (KDE neon), but there's no shadow in the UI except the right-click menu in a page area. Microsoft Edge does have shadows.

Aaron

@atlemo said in New look, new feature – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3483.4:

It will open the last used group

@atlemo said in New look, new feature – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3483.4:

can also drag to re arrange

@atlemo Thanks. It was my fault. Not enough testing.

@olli my fault.

Flikowski

Sorry, but a new design that widens the browser vertically will always be inferior to me.

It's a shame for me to waste space for pages. Not everyone has a large monitor with high resolution.

Exaggerated rounding is also not for me, now I have a square setting.

So honestly, I changed my browser to Vivaldi, as Chrome started to grow vertically, especially the context menu, which stopped fitting on the screen and had to be scrolled, it was kind of absurd.

Thank you for not going the route of forcing it, but giving options to choose from, I respect that approach so much.

Among other things, this is why I loved the old Opere and now Vivaldi for how much I can customize the browser for myself.

edwardp

@Culip Is there a particular KDE theme or style you are using? I'm not seeing shadows on any KDE application menus on Plasma 6 (openSUSE).

daniel

@culip: Are you using Plasma on X11, XWayland, or Wayland?

TetraSky

Well, I'll get used to this rounded look I guess.

BUT. Will something be done for this outrageous amount of wasted space above and under the new rounded tabs ?
You can easily gain back a good 10 pixels and it will still look more than fine.

Left is what we have. Right is what we could have by cutting 5 above and 5 under.

10 pixels might look like nothing, especially on our ever larger screens. But man do I dislike that huge gap that serves no purpose.

adacom

@g_bartsch do you mean bookmarks in the side panel - if so its possible to reduce the spacing - has to be changed with each update as the setting is in bundle.js

search for - return 24+ and alter it to reduce the spacing

if its the spacing in the bookmarks bar then no idea if thats possible

edwardp

@daniel I'm not seeing any shadows using either X11 or Wayland.

inxi -G is showing it's using XWayland.

Graphics:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RS780L [Radeon 3000]
    driver: radeon v: kernel
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.12 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.2
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: radeon
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: r600 gpu: radeon
    resolution: 1920x1080
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: kms_swrast,r600,swrast
    platforms: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 3.3 vendor: mesa v: 24.1.7 renderer: AMD
    RS780 (DRM 2.50.0 / 6.11.0-1-default LLVM 18.1.8)
  API: Vulkan Message: No Vulkan data available.

Culip

@edwardp No, it's Breeze, the default Plasma 6 theme. I can see the shadows

Vivaldi 6.10 snapshot

Falkon (Qt6) on Plasma 6

Edge on Plasma 6

Culip

@daniel XWindow, and I don't see shadows in Wayland either.

Again I'm using Plasma 6 (KDE neon) with mostly default settings.

iPristy

@stardust: There you go, someday will maybe have this, i made a mockup.
https://i.postimg.cc/cLJhrRGC/Vivaldi.png

daniel

@tetrasky: I thought this was terrible the first time I saw it. I just wasn’t used to it. On day two I was indifferent. Now, I like it quite a lot, and there is lots to like! E.g., Tab Stacks are much more distinct on the Tab Bar. Give it a hot minute.

edwardp

@Culip I'm using Breeze also. Thank you for providing the screenshots.

jimmynewtron

g_bartsch

@adacom That is exactly what I want. Thank you so much!

How did you ever find that setting?

It's such an easy hack I don't mind doing this each upgrade.

burnout426

@atlemo said in New look, new feature – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3483.4:

@burnout426: We are working on a fix for this. Thanks.

It's caused by the default background of the default Vivaldi light theme. In the editor for that theme on the background tab, the background is labeled "From Vivaldi". If I change the background to something else, the whole UI speeds right up like it's supposed to. The 1st "Gradient" background causes the issue too. The 2nd "Gradient" background causes the issue too, but not as much as the first one and not as much as the "From Vivaldi" one. "Beach", "Purple Rain" and "Dark Shapes" for example don't do it.

Another way to say it:

If I goto vivaldi:settings/themes/, double-left-click on Vivaldi Light and click reset, the whole UI instantly slows to a crawl. If I change the background to something else (besides the gradient ones), the UI speeds up.

mib2berlin

@burnout426
Hi, did you get this on Windows and if yes which one?
I can use any theme on my Linux laptop without slowdown, it is maybe a Windows only issue.
I can add this to the bug report.

Cheers, mib