Names for Windows
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Can't agree more with OP. I was going to create such feature request but then found this thread.
When I started having hundreds of tabs then managing them in one window became hell. Even with the multiline tab mod it's too hard to find the tab which you are looking for in 5+ rows of tabs. So I switched to grouping tabs by windows. Now I typically having 3-5 Vivaldi windows. And then I came to this problem when it's hard to find the window which you are looking for.
Btw, another great feature request for tab management is tab colorization
@Fred_M said in Names for Windows:
- Explicit window names should be shown in italics while unnamed windows identified by their active tabs should be non-italicized.
I would prefer bold text rather than italics:
Example:
Boating and Fishing (14 tabs)
Order confirmation (7 tabs)
Antenna Engineering (9 tabs)
Politics (11 tabs)
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Yes, this feature is the only thing I'm missing in Vivaldi. Until recently I used OneTab and it's modern forks to bypass this gap. Unfortunately after another case of "I lost all your data, I don't care, go f* yourself", I uninstalled this crap I've been using since pre-Vivaldi times. And now, handling 8 to 12 windows in Vivaldi on a daily basis... As I see in posts above, it's more common use case. I'm sure there's tons of us, working-on-several-projects-at-the-same-time tab-hoarders
Much love, the Viv Team
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still praying for this
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I thought a bit about implementation of this feature. I think it should not take much time to implement. It requires only 3 small changes:
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Add the
Rename Windowmenu item to some of menus. Maybe to the context menu of a tab or to the main menu. Clicking this item will show popup with text field where window title can be entered/edited. Since (AFAIK) Vivaldi UI is written in React, then theprompt()JS function can be used to show such popup. -
Change names of menu items in the
Move Tab to Windowmenu to show window names for windows which have names. For other windows it will be as it was before. -
Change code which sets window titlebar text and window button text on the taskbar. Currently Vivaldi sets window title to the title of the active tab. After this change if window has some title specified by user, Vivaldi will use it instead of the current tab's title.
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@alexander-gorbovets Developing in software as big as a browser is never easy. Some additional work I can think would be needed:
- Add a property and accessors to each relevant react object that might need to use window data in the future
- Introduce a storage mechanism to retain this information across restarts
- Handle this in the sync system
- Handle this in the session storage system
- Translate feature into every language vivaldi supports, and make sure it fits in every locale's interface
- Test this doesn't interfere with other features like stacking and tiling
- Test you don't break anything if a user decides to type something stupid into the rename prompt
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@LonM but because you are the best developers of best browser, we believe that you manage it easily :face_with_stuck-out_tongue:
I agree its a good idea which can be very useful while using more windows opened
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@8u5t3r Vote for the first post if you haven't already done so. (Voting again will remove your vote).
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This would be a brilliant feature for all the reasons mentioned so far.
What a shame that 2 years on there's no progress with having this implemented.
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News from Chrome Canary:
"Google is adding the ability for users to name Chrome windows for easier window management and switching. The latest Chrome Canary builds now let users right-click on the title bar or on individual windows in the taskbar and choose to name the windows. The feature is not hidden behind any flags and should be available to all Chrome Canary users running the recent builds.
The feature is a nifty addition for those that separate tabs in different windows based on the contents of the tabs or to segregate between work and personal pages. Generally, browser windows with multiple tabs display the name of the currently open tab and a count of the number of other tabs, which can get confusing.
The renamed windows make it easier to ascertain which window to switch to and can be constantly tweaked depending on the requirements. This, in addition to the other tab management features recently added to Chrome, greatly improve multi-tasking and tab management on the browser, especially for power users that spend a lot of time on the web.
While the feature is already live for Windows users on Canary builds, a Chromium entry from June suggests that the feature has also been in the works for macOS for a few months now. Therefore, users should also begin seeing the feature on Apple’s desktop OS. Considering that it is just beginning to show up in the Canary builds, it could be a while before the feature makes it to the stable channel."
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This would be a great addition. Maybe combined with the feature request of Naming of Sessions.
@mauritskorse said in Session Management: Name of Session Somewhere Prominently on Browser:
Yep, I would like this very much as well. I usually try to have 3 windows/sessions open (work, hobbies and temp/in-between things). But stuff get's cluttered pretty quickly as visually there's no difference.
I'd love to see some features to improve the sessions:
- naming/renaming sessions
- showing session name
- different theme per session
- auto saving sessions [^1]
- when starting vivaldi give the option to choose which session(s) you want to open [^2]
^1. After opening vivaldi, I always open the different windows from last time from the 'closed tabs' to make sure the I do not lose them. If I forgot and restart Vivaldi I have lost them all.
^2. Ideally, just open a empty window and on the Start page there is (next to the bookmarks) an overview of last sessions that can be opened. -
This would be a hugely useful feature for me as well. I usually have a window open for each project I'm researching, plus tabs for general purpose research, and not being able to title them is almost a dealbreaker. Given the whole schtick of Vivaldi is customizability it's a little sad this doesn't exist yet. It's available on Chrome/Chromium/New Edge, and there's an extension available to enable it on Firefox, which I've been using for ages.
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I actually duplicated this in another topic. I figured someone already beat me to it. I would really like this as I do thematic research and have 6 different windows with a dozen or less tabs in each. Far too often, I have to exercise cognitive skills to identify which window I need to go to.
Window names would be a great productivity boost.
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For those interested, there is a Chrome Extension in beta called, appropriately, Window Namer and Restorer. I am testing it out and it appears to do exactly what this topic requests. A couple of observations:
- It's in beta: Caveat emptor
- The names have a maximum length of 8 characters
- Window names are viewable when you Alt-Tab (or the Finder equivalent) to display all windows on the desktop and when you do a Move Tab. If you are in a window you must click on the extension to see the name of that window.
- Window restore is said to display the window name as well but I haven't tested this out
- The Window name does not appear for some pages such as Chrome-specific tabs (such as chrome://history/ etc)
I have been using it for a short while and it is a godsend.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/window-namer-and-restorer/elgojbkcijgcpojlfhhmjnclgkofmiha
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Do we know something new about development of this feature? Its already more than 4 months since Chromium revealed this and literally any reaction from Vivaldi. I really don't understand.
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I'd also like this feature.
I use WindowManager to set windows sizes and positions. For apps that have multiple windows under the same class, the only way to have different settings for each window is to have persistent and unique window names for each of them.
For now I'm using Window Title Changer, but it'd be much better to have it natively on the app.
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+1, this would be very useful. Are there any updates on this? Is it being developed?
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Also would it be possible to restore windows in the virtual desktop they where in when closed?
