Main menu bar

[A Former User]

A Former User @Guest last edited by

@chuchkyschild There is 2 sidebars doing same and similar functionality.
Its a grand wish of the user/addon community to make Reborn sidebar a host to what is/was known as Opera's sidebar - or extension bar if you will.

A dev commented a while back that they have 'the sidebars' on table. Hopefully a resolution will surface.

One idea would be to eg. at the bottom of Reborn sidebar host a "tray" that extends? when clicked/hovered - and that tray extendinf from the bar would host Opera's Sidebar API.

Or something like that. I see that addons likely won't get similar space from Reborn sidebar as was/is with Opera's sidebar - aka Extension Bar.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@rudrick said in Main menu bar:

There is 2 sidebars doing same and similar functionality.

Not exactly but okay, I agree they could be merged. But I guess it's not something for the near future.

[A Former User]

A Former User @leocg last edited by

@leocg A middle-ground solution would likely do just fine. For the mean time at least.

If the bars cannot be merged any time soon (darn FB) - then what? Addon dev for sidebar is stalled, yet the community could bring so much value to Opera users with addons at users 'sidedash'.

There appears to be a web panel in Opera (messenger apps) but even the web panel isn't available for content the user wants to browse in it - and no word of web panels coming to Opera.

We can't even multi-select tabs!

If we could at least change orientation of the bar and or bars (left or right) - that would be something. But perhaps there could be some other visual ways to make it seem "coherent" - like hover - I dunno - check ext 'vTabs'.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@rudrick I guess it's not a matter of can or cannot be merged but of it doesn't exactly being something with a very high priority. I don't think that many people use the extensions sidebar.

[A Former User]

A Former User @leocg last edited by

@leocg Extension bar is clunky and hard to use from get go - like fast make it appear/disappear. Sidebar API also leaves lot to desire - like if one has eg. Youtube playing on sidebar ext one cannot minimize it or the playing stops and the page vanishes to oblivion.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

what is this so called extra sidebar? this is my opera and it's perfect as is.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@chuchkyschild The extensions sidebar.

[A Former User]

A Former User @leocg last edited by

@leocg said in Main menu bar:

@chuchkyschild The extensions sidebar.

ok i found it. i personally don'r see a need for it.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Some people were asking for bookmarks in a sidebar panel, the extensions sidebar does that. It existed before the current sidebar. They need to either allow people to put it on the right (those few who want it), merge the two, or just remove it.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

no need for it since there is a bookmark bar already. start duplicating features and opera is going to get bloated. like in the official there is a developer menu, why? with that said news should be in with help and about opera, not where it's current at.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@chuchkyschild Since most monitors nowadays are 16:9, many people prefer to 'lose' horizontal space rather than vertical one.

And if you think about it you will see that many functions are duplicated in a browser or even in softwares in general.