Names for Windows

[cayenne]

@Pesala
for example, on screen 1 I have an app in a window and on screen 2 I have 3 Vivaldi windows.
I'm wasting time switching to the right window because I have to see what's on it because Vivaldi still doesn't support naming windows.

When will this ever happen?
It's been built into Chrome for years. Why is it taking so long to be integrated into Vivaldi?

I don't use Vivaldi for this and other things.

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[Pesala]

@cayenne There are a lot of feature requests. This one is old and popular, but apparently not easy to implement.

Summary of Feature Requests

Category	Threads
Android	848
Desktop	3,781
Mail, Calendar, and Feeds	644
Automotive	5
Subtotal	5,278
Community	179
Total	5,457

While you wait, try using the Windows Task Bar.

[cbf305]

I certainly won't argue that there are a lot of feature requests, however, the code to implement this already exists in the Vivaldi source code since it's Chromium based.

I know enough C++ to read (aka fumble) through code, but not enough to write anything, otherwise I would give it a go. Hopefully I am on track here and a Vivaldi dev sees this and can check this request off the list easily.

I was using the source for Vivaldi version 6.8.3381 for my detective work.

See the file <vivaldi-source-folder>/chromium/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc, and search it for --window-name. That is the Chromium flag to set the window title; I use it all the time from a rofi script to launch Chrome with different profiles and window names.

I did a little more poking and found a function in <vivaldi-source-folder>/base/vivaldi_browser_window.cc. That function is VivaldiBrowserWindow::GetTitle(), which I believe is getting the page title and then appending the string - Vivaldi and returning the whole string.

Just above that is a function VivaldiBrowserWindow::UpdateTitleBar() that is referencing a function by the name of UpdateWindowTitle(). I believe that is the function that needs to be changed, but that appears quite a few times in the source. I think it's origin is in <vivaldi-source-folder>/chromium/ui/views/bubble/bubble_frame_view.cc, but I could be wrong. Regardless of where it is, to mimic Chromium, it would be a simple if/else. Something like:

# Pseduo code:
if --window-name value != ''
    window title == --window-name value
else
    window title == page title + " - Vivaldi"

Anyway, I'm just trying to be helpful as I would like this feature too!

Thanks!

[moe2]

Joining the request with an addition: it would be really nice if the window name was the name of the currently selected workspace, instead of the currently selected website.

I have 2-4 windows open at all times, and each workspace has a lot of tabs, because of backlogs, and sometimes other stuff. If I open a forum while slacking off, I would like the window to still be "reading" or "german class" instead of the forum, which may or may not be open in other windows/workspaces as well.

[avram]

Displaying the workspace name would be a step in the right direction. I imagine that would easier to implement due to the way Vivaldi treats windows. It seems Vivaldi treats windows as quasi-transient containers, so if you named a window "Shopping", then changed the workspace on that window to "Home", you'd likely want the label on the Window to be "Home". But would the tabs you had open before you switched to a workspace still be associated with the "Shopping" label? Then they would be sort of an ad-hoc workspace. I don't know what Vivaldi calls these tab groups.

So I think this can be implemented in two steps:

• When on a workspace, use workspace name for window
• Allow naming of the group of tabs open in a window that are not associated with a workspace.

But the lack of this feature is a major issue. I find I can really only have one or two Vivaldi windows or my productivity plummets, so I end up having to use other browsers for actual browsing and Vivaldi for things that don't change much.

[jpsala]

THIS IS NOT A SOLUTION

I made this runOrActivate.ahk script to solve a problem with my Vivaldi browser profiles - I couldn't tell them apart with regular window detection. The script keeps track of application windows by remembering their unique IDs. When you run it with an ID and launch command, it checks if that window already exists - if it does, it simply toggles it (brings it up or minimizes it); if not, it launches the app and remembers which window belongs to which ID. I originally built it for my browser profiles but realized it works great for any application where you need to keep track of specific instances. Now I can hit different hotkeys and always get the right browser profile, even when I have several similar-looking windows open at once.

Here is the Script
You'll need Autohotkey, you can compile it if you want, Autohotkey is awesome BTW

Adjust the path to the Vivaldi executable and your profile names

I could create a scaled-down version that runs in memory and uses hotkeys. It would need to be configured with specific hotkeys, file paths, and profile names.

Cheers
Juan Pablo

[OyaG]

this is such a critical feature. other chromium browsers have this feature. could just steal the code, no?