Solved Annoying new "exit" button on a side panel

Firlej

With the last update Vivaldi forces some new annoying features without asking anyone about permission for destroying his work routine.
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When you click on it, it disables a whole side panel, not just shuts the current panel window. This is old place of the refreshing button, so I unintentionally disable whole side panel every time, when I want to refesh a current site in my panel. Thanks Vivaldi, great work. Add another calendar or game there.
I can't disable it in settings, beacuse a skinny guy with glasses and beard thinks, that if he likes it, I have to like it too.

luetage

@luetage But seriously, you can simply hide it with a bit of user CSS: .panel button.close.transparent {display: none;}

Firlej

Everything was fine, and you could even configurate all your dialogue windows. But with the latest update Vivaldi decided to screw it up.
Now your dialogue window is much smaller and you have to scroll it with down and up arrows. You can't disable it in setting of course, because one skinny guy loves it.
So, if you automaticly click at some place in your dialogue window, you click a different button each time , because lines in the window are floating up or down, depending on your cursor position.
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This is the worst browser now.

luetage

@firlej
Job: Developer @ Vivaldi
Greatest joy in life: Destroying firlej’s user experience

I fear they are coming for you.

luetage

@luetage But seriously, you can simply hide it with a bit of user CSS: .panel button.close.transparent {display: none;}

Pesala

@firlej Which dialog is this?

kurai

@firlej said in Annoying new "exit" button on a side panel:

Everything was fine, and you could even configurate all your dialogue windows. But with the latest update Vivaldi decided to screw it up.
Now your dialogue window is much smaller and you have to scroll it with down and up arrows. You can't disable it in setting of course, because one skinny guy loves it.
So, if you automaticly click at some place in your dialogue window, you click a different button each time , because lines in the window are floating up or down, depending on your cursor position.

This is the worst browser now.

I have this issue in Chrome and Brave too. Probably this is Chromium bug.

legobuilder26

@kurai @Firlej This is the new "Windows 11 style" menus, created by Chrome and inherited by Vivaldi.

Firlej

@pesala I mean, every window, which appears, when I right click on something - a screen, a bookmark folder, etc. I want my old style back. Now!

Firlej

@luetage Thanks man, but I don't know, how to implement those CSS commands in my browser. I have never done this before. And I am not sure, that it is safe for future updates.

hlehyaric

@firlej said in Annoying new "exit" button on a side panel:

how to implement those CSS

Read this post → Adding Style → Vivaldi 2.6 & above.

Pesala

@firlej Implementing simple CSS Modifications is not difficult. Sometimes they break after an update, but don't let that put you off.

Stardust

I am not sure why we need this close button there, but I am not a Side panel user. Someone might argue that it makes UI heavy...

Pesala

@stardust Yes. It is bad UI design. With the web panels, the button is not included on the toolbar, which makes no sense.

It would be better if F7 Toggled the Active Panel on/off. We already have F4 to toggle the Panel Toolbar on/off.

I can live with shortcuts Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+9 for toggling individual panels, but the behaviour is weird if a panel is disabled. E.g. since I used Ctrl+4 for the Downloads Panel, now that we have the Download Popup, I disabled the Downloads Panel, so the shortcut now just shows a blank panel.

Stardust

@pesala said in Annoying new "exit" button on a side panel:

With the web panels, the button is not included on the toolbar, which makes no sense.

You mean the Panel close button on the address bar?
That would be more weird imo.

BTW I have Show/hide panel button there:

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Pesala

@stardust No. The Close Panel button is on the Panel Header, but not on the Panel header toolbar. There is already a toggle panel button on the Status Bar. If the panels are on the right, the button is still on the left by default, which is an ancient bug. I manually moved mine to the right of the Status Bar Zoom controls.

Vote for Remove the Close Panel Toolbar

Stardust

@pesala said in Annoying new "exit" button on a side panel:

The Close Panel button is on the Panel Header, but not on the Panel header toolbar.

I am confused. What is the Panel Header? I think you should include default (bigger) screenshot of that area.

Zalex108

@firlej

The toggle works.
The screenshot is from V 5.1, check whether works in 5.2.

Firlej

@pesala Well, I have enabled "automatically close inactive panels" in settings, so I don't need any button or a shortcut for closing the side bar. Vivaldi is making inconsequent solutions in its UI. I am sure, they didn't even test it, just put some new features, because someone had thought that it would be cool.

Pesala

@firlej The close button hides the Panel Toolbar, just like F4 or the button on the Status Bar. Auto-Close Inactive Panel hides the active panel, but not the Toolbar. F7 does nothing if a Panel is open.

Firlej

@hlehyaric Thank you, but I still can't do that. I have created a text file with line

.panel button.close.transparent {display: none;}

And I did everything from the instruction. And there is no effect.