Tab Islands in Opera Air – Essential for Focus and Peace

[Mlipka]

Mlipka Opera @salimalbitar last edited by

Hey Guys, your commitment and engagement is amazing! It's visible in those threads.
Regarding Tab Islands, as @MohamedSahal mentioned we love this feature too.

We have many ideas on developing AIR, including tab islands. However, it can't be just a "copy".
For sure, we want it to be more AIR-like. So, it will happen in some way, but I can't share when exactly.

[oiurys]

oiurys @Mlipka last edited by

@Mlipka Any predictions? It's been almost 6 months since this thread was created, and several people have already highlighted the importance of tab islands for productivity, which is the purpose of Opera Air. So, it could just be a copy, yes, it's better than not having one. It already worked very well in Opera One, so it will work well in Opera Air, which has a similar architecture

[Mlipka]

Mlipka Opera @oiurys last edited by

@oiurys
I don't have currently any predictions.

What I meant by "in some way" it might also mean developing better solution for increasing productivity than tab islands.

[mixchild]

mixchild @Mlipka last edited by

@Mlipka Opera GX has flag to activate Tab Islands why don't you just let users do the same with Opera Air

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @mixchild last edited by

@mixchild Because tabs islands is not implemented yet on Opera Air, most probably? Because Opera Air aims at a different audience that, maybe, don't need tabs islands at the moment?

[mixchild]

mixchild @leocg last edited by

@leocg Interesting, how come Tab Islands is the second most requested feature after Dark Mode? and after dark ambient implementation it's the number 1 most requested feature with 22K views, what is the point of this forum or opera blog if developers spend more time explaining why the feature isn't gonna be implemented than time it would take to integrate a flag to activate a function

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @mixchild last edited by

@mixchild Views are not a synonym for request or support for the request.

Even for actual requests, the forum may not be the best parameter for measuring it since just a very few percentage of users post here.

[mixchild]

mixchild @leocg last edited by

@leocg so people who take their time of the day and post here aren't voicing wider user base's wish regarding to feature to organize tabs? Opera Air was suppose to be organization and simplicity. tab islands should have singular color white or gray

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @mixchild last edited by

@mixchild Nope, they are voicing their own wishes.

Anyway, there's no way to know if something has a large amount of requests based only on forums posts.

[mixchild]

mixchild @leocg last edited by

@leocg There is yes - Views on forum and Upvotes on reddit - tab islands has the most views after dark mode which has been implemented already

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @mixchild last edited by

@mixchild Active users on the forum and even on Reddit represents less that 1% of the Opera users.