Downloads Button Popup
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Kind of sad to see that here is no progress at all. The only thing i'm using the side bar for is for downloads and it would be great to get rid of the sidebar at all, by just moving the downloads to the top, next to the other addons. I mean, Vivaldi has so much great options to customize the UI and adjust the browser to your personal workflow and needs, why not give people the option to also get rid of the whole sidebar if they do not need it and have a second place where you can see your current and previous downloads. I like a clean and minimal interface and this is the reason why the sidebar, but also the bottom statusbar is disabled and should not be visable at all.
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I see Vivaldi still isn't focused on minimizing screen space by putting the download button next to the user icon:
update: April 29 2021
https://vivaldi.com/new/instead we're still focused on wasting screen space by being forced to use the side panel to keep track of downloads.
I guess the devs must be against such simple and elegant functionality if they still can't figure out a common sense feature like this.
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@tcll For me any button I rarely use is a waste of screen space. When I start a download I can just press F4 or
Ctrl+Shift+D
to keep track of any downloads.If Vivaldi kept adding buttons for every single minor use case, for users too lazy to learn basic keyboard hotkeys or use the menus it would soon look like this:
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@pathduck obviously there'd be a settings toggle to auto-hide the download button next to the user icon when no downloads are going, if the toggle to enable the download icon in the toolbar is enabled...
that's just common sense for people who actually want to preserve screen space.I'd prefer not to have to press a button (or 3) to view my download progress
but I'd also prefer not to have to waste more screen space than needed by using 16-20 pixels at the side of my screen for nothing more than a download button.
all I need is for the (animated) download button to be displayed here:
rather than here:
you tell me which wastes more screen space.
currently I don't even use the sidebar at all.EDIT: currently Opera and Firefox have a more superior UI to Vivaldi just for this reason.
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@pathduck said in Downloads Button Popup:
For me any button I rarely use is a waste of screen space.
Otoh some browsers like to remove search bar from the address bar, so you get a lot of free space for additional buttons
BTW: I love that picture
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I just have trouble understanding why the devs continue to miss such important functionality...
literally all this is asking for is a settings toggle to enable the download button in the toolbar, like so:
they can certainly provide toggles for numerous other things
why is the downloads button so special that it can't be in the toolbar and has to inconveniently force users to waste screen space with the side panel??
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man, 4.0 is out and still lacking such an important toggle here: (or at least in Appearance)
Show Downloads Button
I guess Vivaldi still isn't focused on a clean customizable UI and hassle-free user experience when it comes to downloads.
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It is pointless getting frustrated by slow progress, when there are over four thousands requests and such a small team. At best, we may see ten feature requests get done on each new stable release every six weeks or so.
I have a couple of custom buttons on my Bookmark Bar (which is on autohide using a CSS mod to save space).
Just add another one to open
vivaldi://downloads
- Restart
vivaldi://restart
- Experiments
vivaldi://experiments
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vivaldi://downloads
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It's on pipeline! Can't wait to see it implemented!
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@pesala sorry to let stress get the better of me
please excuse me as it takes a lot to get me to this stateI've been using this browser since 2018, and it's come a long way since I've used it
I mean heck, you guys beat brave in security, among literally everything elsebut the poor experience with downloads as a whole (not just the lack of an animated button) that hasn't changed since I've started using the browser is the major factor of all this
just having a download button with a popup frame would help, but there's still the fact of the useless dialog that gets in the way of saving a download:
^ why does this exist at all?but anyways, yeah that's just a contributing factor to my impatience from 2018
I could've made a better post that wasn't so aggravated
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@stardust that's epic to see
maybe finally some of these stress factors can finally get cleared up
such as saving a PDF as well
just copy from FF and make it single-page to actually beat Opera
easyanyways, I'm getting ahead of myself
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@tcll said in Downloads Button Popup:
why does this exist at all?
It exists so that users can opt to choose for each file, to save them in different places.
Again, your frustration gets in the way of finding the solution that is already there. Go to Settings, Downloads, and enable:
Save Files to Default Location Without AskingOr enable the checkbox on that dialog to avoid even looking in Settings.
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I don't want to save to the default location
I want to be shown a file dialog:
not a dialog to be shown a file dialog:
^ this dialog doesn't need to exist
I already want to save my file to a location other than the default download location
if I wanted to save to the default download location, I wouldn't be bringing this up
please don't recommend me to save to the default download location
I have it disabled because I don't want to save to the default download locationjust show me this dialog:
I don't need to see this dialog:
I have default download location disabled so I can be shown this dialog:
stop telling people to enable the default download location
this dialog is inconvenient and gets in the way:
please remove it when default download location is disabled.we don't want to use the default download location
stop telling us to enable it
and fix the GUI to do downloads properly
when we click a download link, this is what we should see:
not this:
^ we don't need thisgood lord
as if people haven't stated this enough such as this thread:
direct download file dialog (no extra "Save" click)
though I've seen other places where this was brought up.come on guys.
EDIT: sorry for the hounding rant
congratulations, you've pushed a button...
please put 2 and 2 together next time.tbh I wasn't really expecting that to be responded to ("?" from me means rhetorical)
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@tcll said in Downloads Button Popup:
I don't want to save to the default location
Then right-click the download link, and use Save Link As..
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OR
a configuration option could be added that disables the annoying dialog so you can just click on download links and be shown a file dialog like every other browser.why is vivaldi so [rainbow]special[/rainbow] that it needs to inconvenience it's users with a useless dialog that only serves to add an extra click to save a file.
I'm not looking for a workaround...
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@stardust You can just right click on the download in the downloads panel and click "show in file manager" (show in finder on mac).
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@thescorb0 said in Downloads Button Popup:
@stardust You can just right click on the download in the downloads panel and click "show in file manager" (show in finder on mac).
Yeah, and now there is a button to open file location. I think the button is too small, and it doesn't look good imo.
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The main things that Vivaldi UX desiners missing thinking about "wide screens space usage on sides", that Site's UXs also thinking about same spaces. And more and more web sites (tools like JIRA, Confluence or Youtrack or any bootstrap based as examle) made different sidebars/side menubar/side buttonbar as main navigation. So screens with several "panels in a row" or even buttons in a row made it ugly.
Also I often use Second wide monitor for laptop - so some times screen is a wide sometimes no - so I don't want to change browser settings or remember more hotkeys to show pannel.
And finaly - users that prefer to extend their browsers by extension - wil not use vivaldi just cause they can make 'lego' from their chrome or opera or edge or other more popular chrome-ish.
Vivaldi user prefere to tune UX of their browsers using native build-in functionality.
I like and prefere vivaldi's download panel UX. And I dont want to get some extension somewhere from somebody unknown who may be will track someting about me just to show me their ugly imitation of pannel. In same time I already have perfect function already built-in but just with main button in wrong '<div>'. -
This is now available in the Latest Snapshot 4.4.2465.3
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@pesala said in Downloads Button Popup:
This is now available in the Latest Snapshot 4.4.2465.3
We made it! Thanks everyone in this thread!
Let's go celebrate now!