Solved V 6.7 | Context Menu | Rollback Font / Size
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@TheNorsePantheon That would create new problems when the quick fix stops working. What you need to understand is that Vivaldi has to battle constantly against Google’s changes. Just take a look at Ad-blocking on YouTube now.
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@TheNorsePantheon said in V 6.7 | Context Menu | Rollback Font / Size:
I'm saying that the Compact Layout should have already been checked for existing users.
Hi,
Not sure about that.Users, either current and newer should need to see the changes / additions.
They may like them.If not, they just need to search about and revert the setting when possible.
Otherwise, user may not be aware of them.
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@Zalex108 Errr no. Most users just roll with the defaults because they are the defaults and they don't have the skills, time or patience to try and fiddle with them. So users adopting the default settings cannot be equated with users liking the defaults.
I start feeling violent every time a bunch of designers dump design changes on my just because they're trying to justify their existence. Mostly it results in my having to spend time not only to try and roll the new crap back on my machine, but also that of my parents, friends and colleagues.
Especially this new shit with padding and spacing the size of Africa, nobody in their right might would actively search for "how can I add so much padding stuff will fall off my toolbar/make me scroll twice as much in bookmark menus", so they only way they can force it to be popular is to make it default. -
I understand both.
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@Ereshkigal
Hi, exactly the opposite opinion about this, this setting is only a workaround.
If the Chromium developer remover the flag to use the old design the setting is useless and all user have to use the new design anyway.The Vivaldi developer can follow an old feature request to customize the menus from the user.
Then you can use fonts you like, padding and so forth.
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@mib2berlin Oh yeah, a request from 2018 ... that sounds like the devs are working hard on delivering this... not.
My worry is that the way this normally pans out, the devs first roll out crap with a menu option to roll back, then they hide the menu option and you have to hack the settings and then they remove the option altogether and people like me who like their shit to be compact are once again searching for a new browser or pray someone manages to cobble together some addon what restores what we had before in the first place...
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Thank you so much!
I am grateful for the ability to change this setting. The updated view was disorienting and caused me no end of confusion, I didn't realize this was a change in Vivaldi settings.
I am unsure as to the cause of this change but providing feedback, perhaps "compact" settings should be the default.
Thanks for your help @mib2berlin and all the hard work from the Vivaldi staff.
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@Ereshkigal I also found the context-menu change disorienting & understand your frustration.
The reason @mib2berlin would share a feature request from 2018 is because it is an existing request and doesn't require creating additional forum content that needs to be moderated.
Also I would add that Vivaldi has a much smaller development team than a company like Google. There are pros and cons to small versus large teams but, in my experience, @jon and his team are much more likely to review and take negative feedback into account when changes impact the overall user experience.
In the event that you are correct @Ereshkigal and a change to Chromium flags would revert the "Compact" settings change in
vivaldi://settingsthen I would agree with you that the development team would need to implement a fix, but for right now all of the issues I had with the context-menu are fixed, and I hope yours are as well.Thanks to everyone for contributing to the forums.
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Hi, I've been using vivaldi for years now. Suddenly today, the appearance of my UI has changed. The drop down menus when I click a folder on my bookmarks bar or when I clicked the vivaldi icon on the top left corner of my browser have a larger font and increased spacing, and the background of the drop down menus also seems like it's a different color. It's brighter than I remember and the border feels different too. For some reason it bothers my eyes and it hurts for me to look at the menus this way.
When I right click, the menu that shows up also has increased spacing, but at least it doesn't make my eyes uncomfortable.
Can anyone help me change things back to how it was before? It's weird because things haven't changed anywhere else. For example, the drop down menu from the workspace right next to the vivaldi icon is completely unchanged, and the text on the bookmarks bar itself is fine, it's only the text from the dropdown menu when I click on a folder on the bookmarks bar that's been changed. I tried changing the fonts and the font size from the settings menu, but it didn't help. On a vivaldi community post, I saw someone who seemed to have a similar problem to me, and the answer that helped them was to change the layout to classic, but I can't seem to find a way to do that. I saw on another webpage to go through the welcome tour again to do that, but I went through the welcome tour and there was no option to select a layout.
Please help.
The version number is 6.7.3329.29 (Stable channel) (64-bit), and my OS is Windows 11 Version 23H2 (Build 22631.3447)
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@WontonWang There are several threads on this tooic already, but to save you searching ...
Settings > Appearance, in the menu section enable Compact layout
Be aware, this was a change made in Chromium to have more touch-friendly menus and as such the Compact layout option may disappear in the future.
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Sorry, I missed the other threads. Thanks for your help!!!
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@HealingCross67 Or maybe they are using the flag to disable the new UI by default.
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@HealingCross67 Yes, you're right - the damned thing updated while I was checking the version and now it's on Chromium 124.0.6367.62 ...
No idea then, I guess they did something like Vivaldi has with the "Compact Menus" setting.
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I was wondering is there somewhere where complaints about this change are collected, you know kinda like a petition to revert this change?
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It's about time you used more Shortcuts, Mouse Gestures or Command Chains, instead of complaining about something that the Vivaldi Team is not to blame.
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I really really don't like how the new menu looks (the flat-earth UXers strike again) and I hope the Vivaldi devs can find a way to revert to something resembling the previous look.
Anyway, I have checked Compact Layout and restarted the browser, and the menus still look the same. Anything else I can try?
6.7.3329.31 (Stable channel) stable (64-bit) on Linux
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@bityard said in V 6.7 | Context Menu | Rollback Font / Size:
Anyway, I have checked Compact Layout and restarted the browser, and the menus still look the same. Anything else I can try?
6.7.3329.31 (Stable channel) stable (64-bit) on Linux
Works fine here however, the menus are back to "normal", especially without the pointless fading animation. I have exactly the same version ATM:
6.7.3329.31 (Stable channel) stable (64-bit)
