Calendar/Task fixes – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2805.21

Ruarí

Today’s snapshot includes more fixes related to the Calendar/Tasks feature.

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jumpsq

snappy snap snap!

Gif2D

Friday snapshot, as ususal!

AltCode

[Calendar][Tasks] Add empty state for tasks panel (VB-91943)

Looks very nice!

Chas4

4th But wait there is another snapshot this week

Pathduck

Thank for the Snapshot! Update, all fine so far

[Settings][Privacy] Change default for new setting “Hyperlink Audit Tracking”: because of potential for problems

About this - I think maybe the wording on the option should be clearer. The first two options are Ask/Allow but it's not easy for users to understand if checking this option actually allows or denies it:

Currently the hover text explains the option but not everyone looks at that. It could be changed to "Allow hyperlink audit tracking" for instance.

Ruarí

@pathduck: Yes we have a bug for that, logged by yours truely (VB-91985). It is very confusing I agree. The text was just changed on our main branch but I am not sure if we can get this onto the stablisation branch in time because of translations. We will see. But yeah it is not great.

I think it is like this because it was one setting here and then it made sense but as more were added we did not think about the title and now it is confusing.

DoctorG

Do i read correct: Vivaldi browser now has allowed Tracking of Hyperlinks?
Does it mean in HTML any attribute ping="URL…" will send a request by default?

Pathduck

@DoctorG It means the setting is checked, i.e. Hyperlink audit tracking is allowed by default on new installs. Users can of course turn it off.

DoctorG

@Pathduck It was activated even if having deactivated setting before – not nice.

Pathduck

@DoctorG Yes, that's not nice. It was not for me though. Maybe a bug?

Ruarí

@doctorg: No it wasn't, you never set it. You were just relying on the default that was already there. It only changes if it was never manually set by you (true for all settings). If you manually set it one way or the other that is remembered.

Put another way, we changed "the default", we did not change your setting since you set nothing.

P.S. I should also mentioned that this did not exist as an option in stable 5.4 at all. So for stable users there is no change either way. Snapshot users can expect more of a bumpy ride. That is why you are on snapshot.

Ruarí

@pathduck: Not as far as I can tell, trying it here. I suspect @doctorg just never set it in the first place. We changed the default, we are not alterting the setting if you manually set it.

Ruarí

@doctorg: Yes we are looking at issues it can cause. We may change it back, we are still discussing it internally. As a user you are still free to change the setting however, which is more than most browsers offer.

Hadden89

@jumpsq said in Calendar/Task fixes – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2805.21:

snappy snap snap!

ender85

Address bar now shows suggestions, but the whole thing refills (redraws) several times before settling (and the things it shows initially don't seem to have anything in common with that I typed; it takes 4-6 seconds before the proper suggestions are shown, and the drop-down stops redrawing).

Omnimaxus

Still no fix for the cold startup in windowed mode, I see. Very disappointing. Is the present window behavior it? I mean, is Vivaldi done "fixing" this issue? Have Vivaldi start up with a proper window animation in maximized mode, but not in windowed mode? C'mon, guys and gals. Do better. I hope this isn't the end of it. That would suck.

mib2berlin

@Omnimaxus
Hi, did you reported this issue to the bug tracker?
I guess such "cosmetic" issues are low on priority but who knows.

Cheers, mib

WildEnte

@altcode and Vivaldi marketing, I think the message shouldn't be that an empty task list is a problem. The message should encourage getting stuff done that need to be done today and to relieve one's mental load by writing down to dos for the future. So it should not say "your task list is empty, create a task!" as if a task was a valuable thing to have, but rather "all the hard work is done! Something you want to do in the future?"

ender85

@ender85 To add to address bar "fix" – the way it works right now is quite useless, because the selection will jump around until it settles; I keep opening completely random pages because the drop-down content keeps changing.