Control Space 1.0 Beta 13

UX improvements around opening, closing, undoing, notifications, interaction, and feedback.

Version 1.0.13.0 committed on Aug 24 2021

Release notes

Workspace

Added

• Context menus now show keyboard shortcuts
• Save dialog now finds and selects the first folder to match the window name
• Save dialog now remembers last-saved to folder
• Save dialog now has "New folder" functionality
• Save dialog now lets you use cursor keys to show folder contents
• Save dialog now accepts Enter from columns view
• Save dialog now lets you pick existing windows
• Added "reveal" functionality to Save notification
• Added "reveal" functionality to Window menu
• Added functionality to select saved and skipped items
• Clear bookmark selection when resources panel closes

Changed

• Shift+Tab from Open Tabs now goes to Recent Tabs
• Save dialog UiColumns now auto-shows folders on keyboard navigation
• Save dialog now defaults to "Save" rather than "Save and Close"
• Closing windows now provides undo notification rather than prompting to confirm
• Complete overhaul of loading tabs and windows from temp to pending items
• Modify restore window mechanism to use listeners and sessionId (vs comparing urls)

Removed

• Removed previous window titles restoration process

Fixed

• Improved title parsing to handle index pages correctly
• Site title years (1920 - 2030) being interpreted as notifications
• All window hotkeys now work from anywhere
• Pasted and dropped URLs appear in a new window with title in edit mode

Resources panel

Added

• Context menus now show keyboard shortcuts

Removed

• Recent tabs no longer show notification badges

Fixed

• Fixed bug with History and empty Saved Tabs where panel wouldn't stay open when initially focused
• Improved item "soft" clicking (activating items without focusing window)

Saved

Added

• Saving tabs now skips duplicates that exist in folder
• Context menus now show keyboard shortcuts
• Cmd+Enter now opens folder
• When saving single tab, description and URL can now be edited
• When saving window or multiple tabs, tab names / descriptions can now be edited
• Workspaces are now optional (via a toggle in the Saved panel menu)
• Saved Tabs column navigator auto-shows content when filtered and navigating by keyboard
• Additional setup screen to choose between folders or workspaces
• Saved tabs now update when you manually create, edit, move or remove bookmarks
• Pages can now be explicitly opened in a new window (via content menu or Cmd+Enter)
• Opened bookmark items' titles retained over first load
• Reopening bookmarks items updates matching tabs' titles

Changed

• Save / Move dialog now uses UiColumns rather than UiTree
• Simplified Choose Folder button prompts
• Added basic tooltips to Resources pills
• New folders are now added using an inline UI control
• UiColumns now auto-shows folders on keyboard navigation
• Removing bookmarks now provides undo notification rather than prompting to confirm
• Improved logic around opening Saved Tabs in the right window
• Opening folders now shows the new window with pending tabs immediately

Fixed

• Deleting an empty folder is now immediate
• Folders now no-longer hightlight when dragged over
• Opened Saved Folders now scroll and focus the new window
• Fixed items being dropped to invalid areas
• Bookmark ordering is now done in one operation
• Prevent ordering of selection within selection
• Choose Folder dialog now doesn't show folder picker when saving a window with workspaces hidden
• Fixed folder creation events not loading content for loaded Saved Tabs folders

Help

Changed

• Help has now been moved to its own popup
• Moved Feedback dialog from options to modal

Added

• Placeholder links videos
• Added video popup

Removed

• Removed Options from toolbar

Options

Changed

• Replaced "Back" button with x close button

Removed

• Removed Help
• Removed Feedback

Tools

Changed

• Changed Tools UI from buttons to links
• Pasted and dropped URLs appear in a new window with title in edit mode
• Sharing now uses parsed titles for better readability

UI

Added

• Added UiVideo component
• Added UiContainer component
• Added disabled state to UiField
• Added buttons type to UiGroup
• Added is-empty modifier to UiEditable
• Added path property and @path event to UiTree and UiColumns
• Added inline functionality to UiRadios
• Added support for keyboard combos to UiMenu
• Added info, note and error functionality to UiField
• Added ability to open UiColumns to a target folder
• Added cursor key navigation to UiDialog buttons
• Added max-depth and disabled-depth to UiColumns
• Added info slot to UiField
• Added description field to EditPage dialog
• Added name option and $notify.has() method to UiNotifications
• Added activate-on-focus prop to UiColumns
• Added red tint to all destructive UiMenuItem options
• Added UiTextarea component

Changed

• Removed redundant context (Tab, Window, etc) from context menu titles
• Changed Options back menu item to a x panel button
• Anything focusable (items, etc) now has .focusable class added
• Changed model events to hide and hidden
• Modals now resolve user input on @hide after confirm / cancel
• Refactored UiTree to use active rather than selected
• Refactor UiColumns to use activate rather than select
• Improved animation and styling of UiNotifications
• Modal width is now adjustable from the modal via $emit('update', 'width', value)

Fixed

• Prevent UiForm submit on enter if in textarea
• Fixed width when opening on UiSidebar
• Bind additional properties to UiPills
• Tighten up formatting and add SVG functionality to UiLinks
• Add focus trap to UiDialog
• Add focus trap to UiTreeContainer
• Allowed empty value in UiEditable
• Fixed inconsistent state of UiEditable after blurring

API

Added

• bookmarks createChildren() method to create nested children
• sessions restoreSession() with refocus parameter

System

Changed

• $settings is now a first-class citizen, and is added via context.addSettings()
• settings package now saves directly to storage (vs going via background)

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