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@pesala Thank you for fixing it and having a look at it.
I guess I should clarify that I'm not expecting this to be something they could change over night, I'm more thinking over the course of 6 months it could slowly mold into something more organized as time goes on and more features gets added.
And for existing users it should definitely stay as it is, because you're absolutely right about that, it would be really confusing for them to have the menu all of the sudden change drastically on them without their input. However, I would recommend it being an option at first, so people could try it out and see how they feel, and then as I mentioned, over time it would get to a point where the developer would iterate on it until they get a final version that's ready to replace the old default.
Also, the way I presented it was my own ideal setup, but most important part is actually the design and user experience goal it's trying to achieve, not the specific setup. So The idea is that it would make it easier to customize one kind of thing at a time, so you start with preference based settings, then you move on to view based settings so that they can hide stuff they don't think they will use and so on.
And yes, you could just search for "Show" but then about half of the results are actually unrelated to what I'm personally looking for since it also shows you related options to the show options. So all of these settings also shows up that I'm not interested in and only adds a lot of clutter:
"Use Buttons in Range Controls"
"Show Background Image" (with 9 image options for me)
"Detect Page Tittle Notifications"
"Remove Tab Spacing"
"Dim Icon When Hibernated"
"Cycle in Recently Used Order"
"Cycle in Tab Order"
"Switch Tabs By Scrolling"
"Minimize Active Tab"
"Fast Forward and Rewind"
"Show Full Address"
"Select Address on Activation"
"Copy and Cut Encoded Address"
"Page Load Progress Bar"
"Include Bookmarks"
"Include Typed History"
"Always Search In New Tab"
"Search In Address Field"
"In Address Field"
"In Search Field"
"Hide the mouse cursor for page- initiated fullscreen"
A simple way to improve it, would to have to option to grey out or even hide related matches. Though it would still not be ideal since if you searched for anything other than "Show", you would likely get a lot less relevant results.
So a solution that would allow them to keep the menu with the same structure and settings, and just add a dropdown below the search bar that allows you to filter out different kind of settings. The option names in the dropdown could be the same as the category names I suggested, with an all option being the default. So if you pick the View filter in the dropdown, it could show you only settings that will toggle visibility for UI elements. Again, that's just an example, I'm not saying it has to work that way.
As for the help documentation and it being a lot of work. I hope you as a moderator knows that Vivaldi is relatively new compared to the other browsers out there. Nothing is set in stone and it will without a doubt evolve and change over time, so the help documentation will have to have to get updated and they will have to do a lot of hard work.
Besides, the Vivaldi developers have clearly showed that they can tackle a lot of hard problems, that other browser developer doesn't even bother trying to do. So I can't imagine changing up the settings menu to be too difficult for it to be worth doing.
I hope I don't come off as too nit picky or have too high expectations, I would just like what's best for the browser so that it gets adopted by enough people to keep the project profitable for the developers. And it also raises the bar for the feature set that people are going to start to expect from other browsers, which means better options for everyone.
