New look, new feature – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3483.4

burnout426

@mib2berlin said in New look, new feature – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3483.4:

did you get this on Windows

Yes, Windows. My setup is listed here. Might require a pretty-old, non-discrete GPU to reproduce it.

mib2berlin

@burnout426
OK, I can test in Windows 11 with my UHD 620 which is old but not pretty old.

mib2berlin

@burnout426
I cant reproduce it on my laptop, specs in my signature.
Added the information and a link to your post to the tracker, maybe it help the developers.

Cheers, mib

g_bartsch

@adacom Sadly the background highlighting is uneven with more at the top than under the text. The old hack we could do was cleaner. Oh well, this result is better than nothing. Thank you again.

electryon

Love everything about this update.
I love the new tabs, they are like Firefox and Brave tabs, they look great.
The new icons are awesome, I love that they are not bold llike the old ones.
Honestly, Vivaldi needed a refresh 2024:)
My only issue is the icons in the url..., the bookmark button, the translate button, the siteinfo button etc.
They look ...old now:)
Please give us at least svg's of them with the new icon style in order to be able to change them with css.
Since you do a refresh, please consider adding the option to themes to use the Mica color as the accent color.
It could be added as an option "Prefer System Accent Color".
In the default theme for example if user selects Vivaldi would use Mica color in tabbar instead of red.
RIght now I am getting every time I change the wallpaper the new color from windows explorer (I get its hex) and replace the accent color in my theme manually.

HarveyDevel

I don't like the new design changes. Rounded corners, floating tabs. I like a more compact design.

That said my reason for posting is actually to say thank you to the Vivaldi developers. You kept easy to access options to enable compact mode which makes tabs no longer appear to float and I can disable rounded corners. Meanwhile with Firefox I had to create a custom userChrome.css to "fix" their design

Thanks!

electryon

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

I don't like the new design changes. Rounded corners, floating tabs. I like a more compact design.

That said my reason for posting is actually to say thank you to the Vivaldi developers. You kept easy to access options to enable compact mode which makes tabs no longer appear to float and I can disable rounded corners. Meanwhile with Firefox I had to create a custom userChrome.css to "fix" their design

Thanks!

In all browsers compact designs are not the defaults.
Vivaldi should follow.
Btw, Firefox has a setting in about config that enables a compact design for Firefox.
browser.compactmode.show
set it to true and an option for compact density will be available.
If you enable it you may have to use less css to make it more compact. You may not need css at all.

HarveyDevel

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

In all browsers compact designs are not the defaults.
Vivaldi should follow.

I don't think others doing something automatically makes it a good idea. If I liked what others did, I would not be using Vivaldi. That said I don't really care what the defaults are, I care that I can change the things I do not like which was the point of my post, thanking the developers for keeping it easily customisable, not to tell them what their defaults should be.

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

Btw, Firefox has a setting in about config that enables a compact design for Firefox
If you enable it you may have to use less css to make it more compact. You may not use css at all.

I am aware that buried option exists. From memory tabs still float, corners are still round and it is not as compact as it was before their UI overhaul which is why I went the css route.

electryon

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

I don't think others doing something automatically makes it a good idea. If I liked what others did, I would not be using Vivaldi. That said I don't really care what the defaults are, I care that I can change the things I do not like which was the point of my post, thanking the developers for keeping it easily customisable, not to tell them what their defaults should be.

I am talking about the defaults. I am not talking about removing compact mode.
They never said they will remove the compact mode in order to be a regular vs compact debate.
They added an option for that in settings for a reason, they wouldn't add the option if they planned to remove compact mode.
There is no doubt there are people who use Vivaldi and like the compact mode it had as default.
But at the same time there are people out there who don't use Vivaldi because of that and don't want to switch to Vivaldi because of its current interface.
Having a more flat interface like all browsers out there may attract more users who don't want to switch to Vivaldi because of its ....unique interface.
So, I think Vivaldi team is doing the right thing to make this kind of changes to the default exprerience of Vivaldi no matter if many existing users won't like it.

mib2berlin

Hi, I export a theme from a second profile to use it in my first one but import doesn't work.
Can anyone reproduce this?

Cheers, mib

jsosmd

It crashed right after it was trying to reopen after the update. It keeps on crashing with each attempt to reopen Vivaldi. I had to go back to 3468.4 to write this note. I am eager and excited, as usual, to see and test your innovations, but I can't ....

frommhold

@adacom: Exactly this threw me off the new UI as well - any sort of list (bookmarks, mail folders, RSS feeds, etc.) is spaced out way too much. Requiring loads of screen estate...
But if in a future update the UI spacing can be segregated from the "list spacing" there, I'd go back to the new UI.

gryzor

I don't get it (must be the only one I guess ), where is this "dashboard" people keep talking about?

jugami

I like the new design, but I have a few comments:

The new icons are better than the previous ones, but their edges look choppy.
I would also make the urlbar border more visible
I would add paddings in the bookmarks bar like in the tab bar, remove top-border and add theme-dependent border radius to the buttons in the bookmark bar.
The title of the active tabs lacks contrast - I would make the text color darker.
I would remove the inner shadows from all inputs - urlbar, search bar, sidebar inputs, etc.
It would be nice if the tabs were a little wider, at least 200 pixels.

mib2berlin

@gryzor
Hi, open vivaldi://experiments and enable it.
I cant remember if you have to enable it in Settings > Startpage too.

Cheers, mib

adacom

@jimmynewtron

how did i find the setting - time - patience and the knowledge [from someone on here - sorry cannot remember who] that it was set in bundle .js

the code has changed over time so what to search for changes but the common thing is - 24 - so search for that change it and see what happens

and yes its easy - its the 1st thing i do when i install the snapshot

gryzor

@mib2berlin said in New look, new feature – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3483.4:

@gryzor
Hi, open vivaldi://experiments and enable it.
I cant remember if you have to enable it in Settings > Startpage too.

Cheers, mib

Damn it, there it is Thank you!!!!

adacom

@g_bartsch - i agree but it has never bothered me enough to search too deeply for a fix - i have played and dont think it can be solved by a css change and know nothing about js - i guess the setting is also in bundle.js but i have no idea what to look for

nomadic

@mib2berlin It might be a theme ID conflict.

Try creating a new theme while you have the one you want to export selected. Then export that new theme.

I believe you can also edit the settings file in the exported theme to remove/change the ID.

Think there is already a bug report for it failing silently without an alert or an automatic correction, but I can't check too easily right now.

Oh, and can you also open the pod bay doors for me?

mib2berlin

@nomadic
Hi, first 2 hints doesn't work.
There is VB-97984, confirmed, I updated the report.
I don't understand your last sentence.

Cheers, mib