Single Click on bookmarks
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It seems to be complicated to give us a single click. Why? How long must we wait?
I am also a programmer and i know it is easy. So please do it. For the users.Then as a programmer, you would also know the correct answer for how long you must wait: until it's ready. You're overlooking multiple factors. First, not everybody wants single-click bookmarks, so probably what's required is an option for setting the click-nature of the bookmarks, and that's going to involve more complexity than just changing a few code lines. Second, if there were just 1,000 Vivaldi users, it would represent (conservatively) 2,000 different and overlapping suggestions for how to 'improve' the user interface… they can't all be first-in-line for limited developer time - time which must also be dedicated to resolving genuine 'bugs'. Third, there may already be complicated changes in the works that involve the same code sections which also include bookmark-clicking; some of those other changes may have to be sorted out before productively applying what you suggest. Fourth, code isn't just 'written', it has to be proofed, compiled, and tested - and rewritten and retested over and over again, if needed. Any code change is not "easy".
The point is that you can never be so sure what's easy or timely when looking from the outside at somebody else's code result, especially code that is very much still a work-in-progress.
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I access all of my bookmarks with single-click by the simple expedient of having them all on the bookmarks bar. I keep a folder at the left of the bar with everything in it that would otherwise be in a bookmarks drop-down menu.
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you must wait: until it's ready.
Sorry. Thread was opened 06 Oct 2015. i thought 4 months are time enough for this….
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you must wait: until it's ready.
Sorry. Thread was opened 06 Oct 2015. i thought 4 months are time enough for this….
Other features which don't exist or aren't working at all, have a higher priority. Four months in browser development is the blink of an eye. These guys are already pushing out fixes and features at light speed, and yet there are literally HUNDREDS of bugs and feature requests which remain unaddressed.
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I have been asking for this for this since the first technical preview. Please work more on the bookmark manager!
Something else that's needed is a proper "sort by name" that puts the folders first and then the bookmarks
LikeBbb(Folder)
Aaa(bookmark)
Ccc(Bookmark)Not the way it sorts them now
Aaa(bookmark)
Bbb(Folder)
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Something else that's needed is a proper "sort by name" that puts the folders first and then the bookmarks
I think you may be using an old version. Here, it sorts as expected.
Snapshot 1.0.380.2Single-click on Bookmarks is already available too — if you use middle-click it opens bookmarks in a background tab.
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Single-click is also available if you access all bookmarks via the bookmarks bar.
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Single-click on Bookmarks is already available too — if you use middle-click it opens bookmarks in a background tab.
I have 300 bookmarks and i shall every single bookmark open with middle click in a new background tab and switch 300 times to the new background tab?
and bookmark bar isn't the same. too much clicks needed.
other browsers like firefox or ie have single click. come on. as nike would say: just do it! ^^
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That isn't a real reason. Firefox and Internet Explorer have such a Panel with single click AND edit + move possibilities. All in one.
They can program it. The vivaldi team can't?
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@Gwen-Dragon:
Single click in bookmark manager will not come early. Why? Internal person said:
Not at this time. There is a reason for doing things this way. If we want a bookmarks panel that can be used to edit and move bookmarks, single click makes things a lot more difficult.
That's great to hear. I hope for a Opera12-like experience.
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That isn't a real reason. Firefox and Internet Explorer have such a Panel with single click AND edit + move possibilities. All in one. They can program it. The vivaldi team can't?
Nobody said Vivaldi "can't" program it. @Gwen-Dragon stated it won't come early, and that there was a reason having to do with the panel also being used to edit and move bookmarks, which can make single-clicking a more problematic source for causing errors in those usages… hence the required coding isn't necessarily trivial. That's indeed a "real reason". FF and IE are mature, released browsers with well-established user interfaces. Vivaldi is not at that point yet, so its interfaces have to each be added via new or altered coding. FF and IE employ entirely different user interfaces, so Vivaldi couldn't directly import their code/techniques even if they wanted to and it were legal. Likewise, if the browser were mature, fully-featured, and the developers were just sitting there sipping coffee and pondering what to do next, it might be a fairly rapid task and high priority could be assigned to code it, but that's not current reality.
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That isn't a real reason. Firefox and Internet Explorer have such a Panel with single click AND edit + move possibilities. All in one.
They can program it. The vivaldi team can't?
I'm not a vivaldi coder, so take what I'm writing with a grain of salt, but you should take in account the "building bricks".
Vivaldi is multiplatform and isn't built with the native elements of the underlying OS (as happens on practically any other browser), so something that is difficult for others is maybe straight forward for Vivaldi and something else that is obvious elsewhere may be difficult or time consuming to implement. -
@Gwen-Dragon:
…OK, that was fault to inform users whats going on backstage. :evil:
Well, I for one, greatly appreciate the perspective you occasionally supply about 'what's going on backstage'. Out here in user land, it's not always easy to grasp some of the 'why' of things that happen (or don't), and any insights into the real world behind the curtain are both enlightening and encouraging. Again, thank you for that.
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I have 300 bookmarks and i shall every single bookmark open with middle click in a new background tab and switch 300 times to the new background tab?
If you're opening 300 bookmarks at once, then you deserve all of the problems that you get.
To open a single bookmark with double-click is no trouble at all. Opening several bookmarks with middle-click is efficient. They cannot all be in the foreground can they?
You may not think that you're a troll, but really you are just trolling. You should understand by now that this browser is under development, so you cannot compare to Firefox, which is now on version 43 and has been undergoing development for many years.
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Of course not all bookmarks at once. That makes no sense.
btw, the old opera 12 have also single click. vivaldi is the only one without. So all other programmers of all other browsers are false? ^^
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So all other programmers of all other browsers are false? ^^
All other browsers are built with native code. All other mainstream browsers have years or decades of development.
Is so hard to understand that?
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I just want to say: this (missing) feature is the one feature that's keeping me from using the current Vivaldi build. It's great. However I have a huge darn lot of bookmarks that I access from the sidebar. Currently using Firefox, which is kind-of OK, but I'd prefer Vivaldi - more sexy :-). But double-click just doesn't work for me. Changing it via about:config or similar would be OK, I don't necessarily need a config dialog entry.
So.
Is there any ticket that I can upvote to express my support for this request? -
+1 for a configurable option
It's the reason that stops me from switching to Vivaldi as well.
That UX decision proved to work for so many people in Opera, including me.Also, I don't like when people, instead of discussing apparently legit requirement, are trying to persuade me that they know better what I should consider convenient for my needs. So no, bookmarks bar is not even a decent replacement for this and double-click is not better than a single click.
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I don't like when people, instead of discussing apparently legit requirement, are trying to persuade me that they know better what I should consider convenient for my needs. So no, bookmarks bar is not even a decent replacement for this and double-click is not better than a single click.
People are not telling you what is good for you, nor are they dismissing this legitimate feature request. What they are saying is that this FQ is well known, and it was filed ages ago, but it won't happen until the developers are ready to implement it. So, while you're waiting, try some of the suggestions offered to work around the issue.
Middle-click is easier than double-click. Middle-click (open in background) and Left-click (open in foreground) on the bookmarks bar also work well. Select multiple bookmarks in the panel to open all at once
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The reason I landed on this was I was trying to organize my imported bookmarks; and when I want to delete or move a bunch of them I obviously have to left click on one then shift-left-click on another. But the first right click opens up the site. Now I know you cannot satisfy everyone, so why you cant you keep it such that when in Bookmarks Manager, require double-click and when selected from the toolbar go for it with single click ? Isn't this logical ??
(I tried to circumvent this thinking shift or ctrl may do what I need but I ended up opening a whole bunch of sites without even so much of a dialog as had appeared earlier asking me whether I really want to open a zillion sites )
I found a workaround, although messy, we can right-click instead of left but the right-click context window will also dance with us.