Show Tabs from Active Tab Stack in a Secondary Tab Bar
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Hey I think I have a cool idea. Please hear me out.
One issue found with tab stacks (and even tabs in general) is "stack cluttering", something that happens when too many tabs are opened at the same time. You know, tabs become hard to find when in a stack because there is no space to display more information, if you have the preview on the screenshot and or tab title starts getting smaller till you can't see it anymore, overall hard to navigate, etc...
What if we could have tabs located not only in one particular side of the windows, but also in multiple sides, e.g. top and right, or left and right, etc. Then we establish priority on one side to open new tabs as normal, but tabs from the currently active stack would be shown in the other "tab stack" side of the windows.
The interaction would be similar to this:
- User clicks a tab stack.
- Last active tab from stack is rendered.
- Tabs from stack are displayed in "secondary" tab side of windows.
We could then play with it in many ways and implement other interesting stuff but it is a pretty good start IMO. We should limit ourselves to just one side when there is so much space available to manage tabs. Some people won't like the idea of having too many tabs in the browser, but I believe that with the expertise that the Vivaldi team has over UX we could make it obvious which tab is the primary vs secondary to avoid confusions for example, and have nice animations that make secondary tab side disappear when not in use etc...
What do you guys think?
Mod Edit: Improved formatting
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@Dystasia said in Show Tabs from Active Tab Stack in a Secondary Tab Bar:
What do you guys think?
I am one of those who thinks that tab cluttering is best avoided in the first place by not opening so many tabs in one window. For those who do open lots of tabs in one window, I think that some simple improvements could be made to tab management without the clutter of additional Tab bars, e.g.
- Reorder Tab Stacks by Dragging Thumbnails
- Tab Stack Cycling
- Shortcuts to Tab Stacks -> Tab i.e. if Tabs are stacked, they are treated as one tab as far as shortcuts are concerned
- Treat Stacks as one Tab when Scrolling
- Improve Thumbnail Previews - For those who stack more than 10 tabs in a stack, the previews should shrink to fit or be scrollable
- Option to Show Webpage Icons in Tab Stack Previews
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This is a duplicate of https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/31426/a-tab-stack-bar
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