Adding custom thumbs in Speed Dial
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@STannerUX:
@Ayespy So what you're saying is I should just drop all my own projects, tell my clients to get bent, give up any hope of getting my own work down, give up my paying job and go homeless and hungry, with my very own version of Grandmama (Duckman) in tow, lugging around a server-size desktop computer, and beg for donations of free electricity and wi-fi so I can fix Vivaldi for a guy who supposedly already knows what he's doing, but just can't be asked to write documentation on what he's making, like every successful project (and, true, many unsuccessful projects) has done since before even you were born. Really? And here I just want to make my site FULLY compatible with Vivaldi. I'm beginning to think it may not be worth the effort, as Vivaldi is starting to feel like a mash-up of basic Opera design and functionality ('We're working on making x more like Opera's y!'), Google plug-ins and other user-added modifications ('Tips and tricks: use chrome://xxxx to add this basic function.'), and user-based troubleshooting (a lot like ZenDesk, which serves to shield companies from customer feedback and ensure that the majority of customers will either never find the answers they need or that they switch over to using a competitor's services instead - ZenDesk is the worst of the trend towards 'worry-free' customer dis-service I have ever seen by far). If Vivaldi is set-up exactly as you seem to think it is, Vivaldi will be going the way of the dodo within a year. Open Source is one thing; saying 'I want to make something exactly like an existing service or product' and then leaving it to everyone else to make it happen is an entirely different thing. At least with true Open Source, the person who starts the whole thing off has to have a somewhat original idea and do some of the work to start the project off. My suggestion? Ditch the snark and bitter old guy act and start learning about how the modern world works (ie, even clothes come with documentation of a sort - the care and cleaning tag), then start trying to write productive answers. Until then, welcome to ignore.
No. What I'm saying is, be real. This is, at best, alpha software. There is a very small team, at great expense to a single person, embarked on an extremely ambitious mission. They are adding or altering features every week. The code, the functions, controls and UI are subject to drastic change at all times. The documentation would have to change every week. There is, essentially, no one to do it. When the development pace slows and some profits begin to roll in (should that ever happen), enabling the hiring of more staff, expect documentation. Prior to this, do like the rest of us and rely on experimentation, the forum, and the blog. If you like the project, you are welcome get your feet wet with the rest of us, and even help if you wish. If you don't, then don't presume to come here and lecture the team about what they're doing wrong. Rather, stay the hell away. Then you and all the participants here will be happy. You are, clearly, better than anyone here and better than the entire development team, so one wonders why you even bother. Surely you have millions to make employing your immense wisdom elsewhere.
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"How do you figure that a person who asks questions or who hopes to find documentation that preemptively answers questions for them is somehow suffering from a delusion of grandeur - that they see themselves as far superior to all others? Because, you see, from my point of view, the guy screaming for other people to get the heck away from the forums (you) is the guy with a massive ego problem."
No one is screaming here. Until you over-reacted, no one even said anything unfriendly. Per my comment history, I'm generally a nice and helpful guy, and I try to lend a hand if I can. No one objected to your asking a question. I'm afraid I did kind of object to your lecturing me and implying that my answer to your question was ignorant and ill-founded.
You see, some of your comments fairly drip with condescension from the viewpoint of someone on the receiving end, though you may be unaware of that. I, and Tiamarth, pretty much just mentioned that it seems a bit early, knowing the circumstances, to expect Vivaldi to be (publicly) documented - especially in view of how rapidly it is changing all the time, and how few people there are to put to the task. Your reaction to my doing this seemed rather over the top. You seemed determined to school me in the proper way that software OUGHT to be developed, because apparently you know these things and ignoramuses like me do not. In reaction to your over-reaction to my comments, I suggested you might be happier not bothering with Vivaldi (or us) if the lack of documentation is so troubling to you. I didn't at any time presume to order you away from the forums, say you ought not comment, or tell you to shut up. I just suggested a course of action that might make everyone happy, if you object to this corner of the universe being as it is. This is a gentle suggestion I have made to two other users, ever, besides you, these last 8 months or so.
Clearly, the developers want feedback, solicit it, and use it. Your insulting my intelligence and my motives would not seem to be "feedback" in the traditional sense.
You're probably aware that a minute fraction of users of software know how to use documentation, or even help files for that matter, and an even smaller fraction put them to profitable use. Jon might be aware of this as well. Maybe that also has something to do with why he's not spending his resources on public documentation at this stage. It strikes me that the guy who originally built Opera into a sort of mini-empire and did quite well for himself in the process has certain priorities in mind, and has his (probably quite valid from his perspective) reasons for their being what they are. Seems these do not, at this moment in time, include hiring someone to publicly document the project.
We do not know what level of documentation the devs rely on to coordinate their efforts, though one imagines there must be some. Many of us who followed Opera from its earliest days didn't really love that there never was even such a thing as a public bug-tracker, but one supposes Jon has his reasons for the way he runs things. I know that businesses who have hired me to help write policy manuals used these quite extensively without ever sharing them with the public. I also know they never hired me to do this type of work in the very early stages of their business growth, but only after things had become more structured and less fluid, and after they had enough earnings to hire spare administrative help over and above the necessities of production.
Long story short, Vivaldi is what it is and everyone is free to ask questions and make suggestions. I'm an easy-going guy who gets along with almost everyone. There's no reason we can't get along.
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It's not "documentation" per se, and its not an official Vivaldi source, but some users have gotten together and published http://vivalditips.com/ which does go a long way toward answering new user questions.
Just another way Vivaldi users come together to help the community. It's a nice resource.
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Great tip.
Hosting the image on a Github repository works nicely also, just make sure to get the "raw" thumbnail url, like so}, { "date_added": "13085551635580164", "id": "149", "meta_info": { "Thumbnail": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/guillermo7227/vivsdtn/master/tn/unadcampus.jpg" }, "name": "Campus Virtual UNAD", "type": "url", "url": "https://campus0b.unadvirtual.org/campus0/login/index.php" }
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Ignoring all the silly stuff above this post.
I am also having the issue with changing icons on Mac.
I have the folders with the right pictures, but when I edit the bookmarks file, the entire speeddial reset. All saved sites disappear. -
It's not "documentation" per se, and its not an official Vivaldi source, but some users have gotten together and published http://vivalditips.com/ which does go a long way toward answering new user questions.
Just another way Vivaldi users come together to help the community. It's a nice resource.
Thanks!
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Hello, I have been following this forum for a while now and it really helped me use Vivaldi as my favorite browser. It is not yet my default one, but it's close. Thanks to you all.
I really like the custom thumbs system that you helped me put in my Speed Dial using a SD file with my images, but since snapshot 1.0.303.23 this no longer works because Vivaldi refreshes thumbs each time we open them and the ones displayed automatically are not as obvious as my images.
I understand this is an improvement for people who like to keep an eye on updated thumbs, but would there be a way to avoid this by blocking the page on my images ? -
Coco-mc wrote:
I really like the custom thumbs system that you helped me put in my Speed Dial using a SD file with my images, but since snapshot 1.0.303.23 this no longer works because Vivaldi refreshes thumbs each time we open them and the ones displayed automatically are not as obvious as my images.
Same here, the only solution I've come up with, if you call it a solution, is to keep the Speed Dial tab pinned and middle click each dial so it opens in another tab.
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It does not seem to happen anymore in the later versions. The pictures do not refresh as far as I can see.
It still does not work on Mac. Much to my frustration. -
This method is outdated, there's a new one that works everywhere:
https://vivaldi.net/en-US/forum/all/7257-customising-you-speed-dial-thumbs -