Sub Menu is way to much.

[hasanraza]

So i have been seeing this for a long time that the sub menu has way to many options in it compare to other browser i think its time for vivaldi to re design the menus of its browser.!!

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[LonM]

@hasanraza Menu editing to let people choose a look that fits them is in progress in development.

[hasanraza]

i hope that they make it available in next update. and not just this menu settings is also way to much complicated.

[Hadden89]

@hasanraza Next stable should have it.
Is just a standard customization menu.
Remove, rename or add just the items you need.

(Setting page)

(An example of a short [menu] with everything onto a renamed File)

[TbGbe]

@Hadden89 said in Sub Menu is way to much.:

Next stable should have it.

Currently, only the main Menu list - NOT the context (right click) menus.

[prascal]

Yes, I completely agree with you. Happened that I got lost for a few seconds trying to find the right line. Frankly speaking, ¾ of the current context menu entries might be there to remind me that other options would be available...

I am sure it is well meant, and for sure everyone out there can find something in the menu which fits to the way he works ...

Fact is that everyone always doing things quite in the same way. Our way. To open a tab for instance, just one of the right now three different available options fits and this will probably never change.

Having different choices is absolutely fantastic. In my opinion and in this case the selection menu was put in the wrong place. To follow the idea of having a choice and personalise the browser to every users own taste and needs, a pre selection on a context menu setting page with all possible right click options would make sense. Private window or open them in background, copy or/and download images, ... Tidy, four line menus or overloaded and - just in case need other commands one day - with all the options at hand, every user could make hes own choice .... and nothing would ever be missing or for some others wrongly placed or too much or .....

Of course sub menu's are also a great way of tidy up the mess there but might slow down the work flow and are contrary to the initial idea of speeding up browsing by fast accessible right click menu commands....

[Pesala]

@hasanraza A number of previous users of Opera Presto have waited five years to get menu customisation. It is finally coming, real soon now, when it's ready, as is the built-in email client.

Customising menus to remove all of those items that you never (never say "never") use and adding a few more that you use frequently, is an enormous productivity boost, and one of the main reasons why we loved Opera, and love Vivaldi. Even a second or half a second saved 100s of times a day adds up to less frustration, fewer mistakes, and a more efficient work-flows.

This is my link context menu from Opera 12.18.

[prascal]

@Pesala You are saying that the context menu customisation is on the way? Will there be a possibility to add custom links, for instance a specific bookmark folder or custom task?

[Pesala]

@prascal I have no Insider information. I suspect that it will only be similar to what we can already do with main menus in the latest snapshot:

• Delete menu items or entire menus
• Add a list of preset commands to any menu
• Add new submenus
• Rename menu items or folders.

I don't see much more than that being available for the foreseeable future.

[prascal]

@Pesala But that is more than you get with any other browser... Sounds exciting!

[Pesala]

@prascal said in Sub Menu is way to much.:

But that is more than you get with any other browser

Any browser other than Opera 12.18, perhaps.

[rluik]

I'd say the context menu really is overcrowded, as in this menu is overkill and too much information at the screen to most users who won't ever use some options that are there by default.

It could be made leaner by removing all the variations (for foreground or background tab) to Open Image for example and let it work with the modifiers Ctrl and Shift.

I can't see an use at all for the "open image in new private window" entry. If the user is in a private window already the default option should open it in private by default, and if the user is in a regular window, what's the point of opening a frigging image in a private window? Can this PNG URL even track you or set/check a cookie? And if you already loaded this page containing the image in a regular window, what's the point of going private?

I know that there are some multiple windows users around, and Vivaldi gives a powerful tool to manage windows via the panel, but the idea of opening stuff in windows instead of tabs like that to me sounds like a 90's stuff. It's so uncommon to me to open new windows that in the event I need that I just access the link and drag the tab out of the tab bar to create a new one and wouldn't need these options cluttering the menu.

After the possibility of customizing the context menus is implemented it could be a good idea for Vivaldi to reevaluate what entries they want there as default. To cater from the basic to the advanced user it might be good to simplify it to not overwhelm basic users with a giant menu and let advanced users customize it if they need all these functions.

[pafflick]

@rluik said in Sub Menu is way to much.:

I can't see an use at all for the "open image in new private window" entry.

I found it! I can't believe but I found it! And I wasn't even looking for it, it came to me kind of naturally.

I was looking at a picture on Facebook in my main window and I wanted to find its origin (the website it was downloaded from). And since I have a strict policy of not using the Google search in the main window, here's what I did:
I clicked on "Open Image in Private Window" and then, in the private window "Search Google for image". And there you have it! The first-ever use case for this seemingly useless feature.

But jokes aside, I agree with the most of what you said. We need the ability to customize the context menus, I really hope that it'll come eventually.