Optional Display of Workspace Index Numbers
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I'd love to see an option for enabling a display of the index numbers of the workspaces in the Workspace drop-down.
(Unless, of course, this is already possible??)
It is already terrific that we are able to customize Vivaldi to such a large extent. And thanks to advice I've received on this forum, I've set up keyboard shortcuts to switch between workspaces - in their current order. For example:
CTRL + SHFT + 1 (switches to the first workspace)
CTRL + SHFT + 2 (switches to the second workspace)
(etc, up through 9, though I sometimes have more.)I usually keep my webmail open in workspace one, and when I'm working on one or two projects, I drag those projects into position 2 and 3, for example. It's a lot of dragging and dropping when I am multitasking seriously. Often I find that I need to use my mouse to switch to workspaces lower in the dropdown list.
It would be great if we had an option to display the index number of the workspaces in the dropdown. Then I could just glance at the dropdown once, and know that I could use my keyboard to switch, for example, between workspace 4 and workspace 7.
I end up opening new workspaces and closing old ones throughout the day. For me, the icons on the workspaces don't help, and just take too long to bother changing. They are more annoyance than anything else, because I end up clicking on them by mistake sometimes and then needing to "Cancel" the dialog for changing the icon. Far more helpful - for me - would be to use that space to show the index number of the workspace, simply by their positions from the top of the list and on down.
Perhaps a different approach might also be: Add a keyboard shortcut option under workspaces, to "Focus Workspace Menu" or "Open Workspace Menu". If I could, for example, use:
CTRL + SHFT + W
and if that dropped down the Workspace menu, I could use my up and down arrows to select any workspace.
(I've tried setting the "Show Workspace Menu" keyboard shortcut, but that does not do what I expected - or much of anything that I can see. Perhaps because I've placed the workspace dropdown in my address bar instead of my tab bar?)(And not to cloud this post with multiple requests, but it would also be nice to have the option to turn off the display of the icons since they only serve to get in the way - for some people.)
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@hommealone up vote! yeah i think we dont have many likes here but...it will be intuitive usefull for everyone 100%. but the font should be well mixing with interface)
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Yes, too bad this hasn't gotten much traction - yet! Just replacing the useless (for me) icons in the Workspaces menu with index numbers would be a great option, wouldn't it!
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I think it could be cool to also have the workspace number appear on the taskbar icon (toggle-able, of course).
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In the meantime, you could name them accordingly i.e.:
1 - Work
2 - Private -
@bariton Thanks for that workaround suggestion. Very straight forward. Another workaround was suggested to me here, using emojis.
Neither are as useful as an actual index, as in an <ol> element. In an <ol> the numbers actually reconfigure automatically if you remove one item from the list. With the workarounds, I need to go back and reconfigure each workspace when I delete any one of the numbered workspaces.
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I completely agree that visually numbering the Workspaces in the menu would be very helpful. However if the workspaces numbers were reconfigured automatically upon a deletion, I would think there should be a option to turn off the behavior. I'm set in stone with my mail workspace/hotkey in #9.
