[Implemented-Developer]Allow more than 5 workspaces

[benstorey]

benstorey last edited by

So I more or less switched to Opera for this one feature alone, workspaces make a huge difference to me.

But the random 5 workspace limit is killing me - can we please please increase it?

At a glance I don't see any other browser that offers something as nice as workspaces, but if Opera doesn't increase the limit from 5 then I'll be switching as soon as something else comes along.

FWIW, I don't think there should be any limit whatsoever. But I could make do with 10 probably.

[namero999]

namero999 last edited by

Having tried to hack my way through this pointless limitation, I've figured that it might be a bad code architecture decision.

By scanning the different configuration files I've found that the workspaces are actually defined numerically, that is, workspace_1, workspace_2 etc... as opposed to have a generic workspaces structure defined as an unbound set. So, in order to keep things manageable, they had to put this limitation in place.

This was probably a feature given to an intern or junior dev, based on how trivially it has been implemented. To refactor this, they'll need to put some non-trivial effort into it, so my expectations of this happening are really low. I just cannot understand how this could pass the review of a project owner, honestly.

Same boat here, as a long time Opera user eventually converted to Chrome, they have won me back just because of the workspaces... but already looking for a better implementation of this great idea somewhere else...

If there was a way to contribute code to this, I'd do it myself.

[benstorey]

benstorey last edited by

That's interesting. Hopefully they see this thread and - rubbish implementation or not - can at least copy and paste those a few more times so we have a more useable limit!

It's a shame because it's such a great feature otherwise.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by leocg

Okay, just another thing on this topic:

Maybe we can start from having more icons to choose?
There is a "food" and a "plane" icon, yeah - nice. But maybe I'm a music producer and need to have a "music" icon? What with people who are doing different stuff?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

From today's Opera Developer 73 release changelog:

DNA-88682 Increase the number of allowed workspaces to the number of available icons

[namero999]

namero999 last edited by

That is an amazing news! Thanks Opera! This should bring the number of available worskspaces to 24.

[benstorey]

benstorey last edited by

Beautiful!! Wonderful news.

Thanks to everyone who worked on this - looking forward to 73 release

[sektorl]

sektorl last edited by leocg

This is so great! Thanks Opera. you're the best browser I have ever used! Off: One thing missing is the translation of the site. If Opera has it, I would never use Google Chrome or Edge to translate sites.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by leocg

Thank You

It's a piece of wonderful news.
Especially because of fact, that we've been heard.
That's why I still consider Opera as the best browser to work with.

[trixiehorror]

trixiehorror @leocg last edited by

@leocg said in Allow more than 5 workspaces:

DNA-88682 Increase the number of allowed workspaces to the number of available icons

When might this be added to Opera GX?

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

With the developer version 74, I was able to create 24 workspace, as many as the number of predefined icons. Promising.

[A Former User]

A Former User @Guest last edited by

@roti-0 Sorry to revivify this old thread, but I'm looking to create more than 5 workspaces with Developer v.74 -- When I click the "add more" workspaces button in the Sidebar setup, it just force-renames one of the existing 5 that I already have. Nothing I can find or do will create more than 5 Workspace tabs. Does anyone know the exact procedure whereby one creates Workspaces #6-24? Any help would be highly regarded! :^)

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@jhjones Update to a current version, 74 is too old.

[lalomartins]

lalomartins @Guest last edited by

@jhjones This fix has even already made it to the regular public branch, I've been rocking 7 workspaces for a few weeks now. (Thanks devs!)

[pumkin54]

pumkin54 @sgunhouse last edited by

@sgunhouse Hm, I'm using 75 and just tried to add a sixth. It just overwrote my fifth one. I still can't get more than five.

[dante003]

dante003 @pumkin54 last edited by

@pumkin54 said in [Implemented-Developer]Allow more than 5 workspaces:

@sgunhouse Hm, I'm using 75 and just tried to add a sixth. It just overwrote my fifth one. I still can't get more than five.

Yeah, same problem here. I'm on Opera 77, and when I try to create another workspace, it just rename one of the five workspaces.

[JAceSvg]

JAceSvg @dante003 last edited by

@dante003 Is there any update about getting this in Opera GX? I'm stuck at 9 workspaces, and having max workspaces would be quite helpful in many circumstances.

[ibsenleo]

ibsenleo @JAceSvg last edited by

@jacesvg Hi! I had the same issue. I just opened the tab manager, disable tabs, reenable tabs and after it let me create new tabs. Seemed something related to old config. Im using Opera GX but i think is the same code base. Hope to be useful

[JAceSvg]

JAceSvg @ibsenleo last edited by

@ibsenleo Thanks, I'll try this out.

[JAceSvg]

JAceSvg @JAceSvg last edited by

@jacesvg Update: It worked, thank you so much.