Slight Inconsistency
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Sooooo, looking at the thumbs of some stacked vertical tabs at the right of my display, I noticed that for all regular tabs, the title is in a bar at the top and the preview below, but within the stack, the title is at the bottom (with an X to close if you want) and the preview above. Now in old Opera 12.xx, I had grown accustomed to all title bars always being at the bottom of a side tab, and it has been a real struggle to re-acclimate myself to the fact that, in Vivaldi, the title bar for side tabs is at the top. And now, within a stack, the previews all have the title bar at the bottom. Could y'all make up your minds? Either help me force my thinking to the reality that title bars are always at the top, (ie preview is below the bar) or revert to the honored tradition of Olde Opera times of having it always at the bottom (ie preview above the bar) but don't make me crazy, with half the time the relative position is one way, and half the time it's the other. My poor neurons won't stand it.
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Interesting, that's how it's displayed when the tabs are placed absolutely anywhere else on the screen too. I'd never given it thought before reading your post - but I can see how that would get annoying.
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Weird.
First, it looks in the first image as though you have the same arrangement I do - titles on top of the single side tab thumbs, and titles on bottom of the stacked tab thumbs.
Second, I had never tried side tabs on my Lubuntu (because of the itsy-bitsy 4:3 monitor), but I did just now, and the arrangement is exactly the same as on Window 8.1. Titles on top for single tabs, and titles on bottom for stacked tabs.
Now - are my eyes fooling me, or are your single tabs on the side really showing the title on top?
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"tis just that the previews' placement contradicts the column's placement."
Yes. That was exactly my point. Tab itself, vs. preview - with the proviso that the preview in a stack of tabs has the same function as the tab title in the tab bar, in that it has an "X" on it to close the tab, which the preview from hovering a single tab does not. So The title bar in a stack preview is analogous to the title bar for a single tab.
IN TRUTH, the "title bar" for a single tab IS THE TAB, and the tab has a thumb below it. For stacked tabs, the only actual TAB is the title on the bar that reveals the stack when you hover it. Once the stack is revealed, it does not consist of a bunch of tabs with thumbs below them, but rather a bunch of previews with "X"es on their title bars.
SO - a preview is not a tab, BUT, it can be configured, if the devs wish, in a manner which is consistent with the appearance of tabs, so that when previewing a stack the IMPRESSION is of looking at a collection of tabs ('cuz, you know, they got that "X" there) rather than a collection of previews.
I get that consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, but it also seems to me that consistency in the look of tabs and previews would not be an evil thing. It was nice in ye olde Opera 12.XX that all side tabs and all previews had the picture on top, and the words on bottom. Consistency wouldn't hurt anything here, I don't think.
And (I almost hate myself for asking this - you spent a lot of time on that post and that graphic) when you say "tiled" in the graphic above, do you mean "pinned?" Just asking. Please don't hit.
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Treacle.