Control Space 16

Improved Setup, Help and Workspace UX / UI and squished multiple niggling bugs

Version 16.13.4.331 committed on Sep 3 2023

Release notes

UI/UX

Workspace:

• Added more informative popup title
• Renamed "Share" actions to "Export"
• Close both sidebars using Escape

Windows:

• Clicking window header now focuses the window
• Hovering over window title highlights window title
• Hovering over window header highlights window outline
• Prevented ordering windows when filtered

Tabs:

• Added display options for inactive tabs
• Added Enter and Shift+Enter shortcuts to wake and sleep tabs
• Changed Home / End keys go to first and last tabs in window

Recent:

• Tab close button Click now removes related tab in workspace (use Mod+Click to remove from list)
• Tab icon Click now focuses tab in workspace rather than activating it

History:

• Tab icon Click now focuses tab in workspace rather than activating it

Saved:

• Added setting to view folder content immediately on focus

Search:

• Added optional 200ms delay to Search input

Components:

• Made badge inversely scale so text legible at smaller zoom levels
• Made form button appearance align better with the app
• Made "link" buttons more easily clickable
• Added tooltips to some UI controls

Setup

• Refactor setup flow to let user start right away, or optionally modify defaults
• Added checks and notifications for conflicting / preferred keyboard shortcuts
• Improved prompts and images
• Added keyboard shortcuts (Left, Right, Escape) to Tour
• Added install and uninstall URLs
• Updated example URLs

Settings

Main:

• Added Extension Options, Shortcut and Setup links
• Added "Reset and logout" button

Inactive tabs:

• Added Show dimmed setting
• Added Hide info setting

Workspace:

• Added "double-click to locate current tab"
• Added "double-click to clear selection"

Tools

• Removed custom "slept" tabs in favour of native discarding

User success

• Simplified Help popup
• Opens release notes page on update Added custom support dialogs
• Tweaked default account settings to make it simpler for new users
• Saved Tabs is now populated with demo content by default
• Add link to Chrome's "On Startup" settings

Fixes

• Fixed Resources Panel behaviour when auto-open is off
• Fixed Workspace scrolling behind Resources when filtering
• Fixed workspace scroll after ordering windows with keyboard shortcut
• Fixed clearing filter on Search if setting is off
• Fixed Move Tabs dialog showing wrong window names
• Fixed Mac Ctrl+Click context menu detaching tabs
• Fixed old-style slept tabs opening in Control Space popup
• Fixed unloaded tabs showing wrong sleep/wake options
• Fixed new Window incorrectly scrolling Workspace
• Fixed new Window not being created after focused tab
• Fixed hotkeys working when modals are showing
• Fixed Down arrow from Search sometimes not opening Resources
• Fix focus after Saved folder creation and deletion
• Misc small UI fixes

System

Components:

• Added UiAlert component
• Added UiBadge component
• Added <details> HTML element styling
• Refactored UiLink to work as route, link, button or plain text
• Enabled simple markdown to be passed to notifications and dialogs
• Added new color options to UiIcon

Code:

• Refactored workspace hierarchy and naming
• Move filtered tabs computation from view to store
• Move title text computation from window matrix to workspace
• Changed popup trigger from custom command to default browser action
• Added clicked property to NavigationEvent
• Rename app store to account
• Update Hotkeys package to filter by input selector
• Made focus directive toggleable

Auth:

• Added checks for session validity, token validity and account stage

Devops:

• Overhauled build system

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