Modding Vivaldi

[Kein]

I assume right-click menu style cannot be customized because lol google?

[Hadden89]

@Kein Correct. Until it will be chromium inherited the style is locked up

[DKavlakov]

Is there a way to mod windows panel in a way that helps to find current active tab in it? I mean something more effective than editing highlight color in the css, as even most psychedelic coloring is of little help when you have to visually locate one single line among countless other.

[Pathduck]

@DKavlakov Hi, the Windows Panel is moddable like any part of the Vivaldi UI.

Since no-one but you knows what's meant by "more effective" I suggest you make a new topic and give some details on what you would deem more effective, with some mockups to better understand what you need.

IMO the best way is to learn basic CSS and inspecting the UI yourself, then experimenting with different approaches, learning while doing is always best.
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/16684/inspecting-the-vivaldi-ui-with-devtools

[jcdickinson]

Installation/modding instructions for my fellow nixos users:

https://codeberg.org/jcdickinson/nix/src/branch/main/home/common/vivaldi.nix#L6

let
  vivaldi = pkgs.vivaldi.overrideAttrs (old: {
    installPhase = ''
      ${old.installPhase}
      cp -vf "${./files/vivaldi/resources}"/* "$out/opt/vivaldi/resources/vivaldi/"
    '';
  });
in { ... }

[luetage]

@jcdickinson It looks like you are copying the contents of the resources folder from an old version to a new version. If that’s true, it’s bad advice.

[jcdickinson]

@luetage that's not what it's doing at all.

[luetage]

@jcdickinson So what is it doing?

[jcdickinson]

@luetage it is modifying this: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.05/pkgs%2Fapplications%2Fnetworking%2Fbrowsers%2Fvivaldi%2Fdefault.nix

[luetage]

@jcdickinson I don’t see how this loads modification files and patches window.html. But it’s not my problem, that’s for the next NixOS user to find out.

[DKavlakov]

@Pathduck You may be right, it may be only my personal opinion. However i really think that scrolling manually thru all those thousands of lines in the window panel and trying somehow not to miss that only one highlighted is extremely ineffective way to find your active tab in the list. Practically useless way when one actually makes active use of tabs and has to many lines in that panel. Especially now, after devs added there all your other tabs from other Vivaldi instances . And given the fact that manually scrolling thru all lines remains the only way to find your active tab any automated or scripted way to find it will be more effective. And if it finally becomes possible to actually know where the tabs you currently work with are in that window panel it may finally become usable even to those who actually make use of multiple windows and tabs and workspaces.