Control Space 17

Multiline tabs, better titles, design refresh, extensive UI / UX improvements and fixes

Version 17.28.3.370 committed on Dec 04 2023

Release notes

Workspace

Titles

• Added multiline titles
• Overhauled title parsing algorithm
• Added initial rules for common developer sites
• Added independent settings for Workspace and Resources

Slept tabs

• Can now double-click tab icon to wake, but not activate
• Now shows any hidden info when searching
• Can optionally show hidden info when
  • selected
  • focused

Fixes

• Added workspace "empty" state
• Popup title is now correct with 1 window
• Fixed bug with selection forgetting anchor after hitting Esc
• Fixed tabs not moving to "New window" after choosing it
• Fixed bug with "Export" shortcut not working in Saved tabs
• Fixed bug with scrollbars appearing on sidebar during zoom
• Fixed bug with triggering popup navigating back to main page
• Fixed bug with Top Sites item sizing
• Fixed bug with click-off not refocusing previously focused item
• Fixed bug with focus being lost when deleting non-focused tabs
• Fixed bug with focus being lost when sleeping tabs

Styling

Fonts

• Aligned font sizes across all items (tabs, saved, etc), links, and form elements
• Increased "info" font size to make it more legible when zoomed
• Changed body font from Muli to Inter

Panels

• Updated panels and overlays to have rounded corners

Workspace

• Overhauled item normal, active, hover and focus combinations
• Consolidated dropped-back sleeping / closed item styles
• Updated selection styling to work with sleep options

Workflow

Resources

• Changed "Search..." prompt to "Type to filter..."
• Resources panel now shows red dot if closed but has search results
• Resources panel now remembers state between loads
• Saved tabs now remembers the active folder between loads

Workspace

• Added Filter settings dropdown
• Added "Display Detail" slider
• Added "Display Detail" keyboard shortcuts
• Changed "Delete" shortcut from Cmd+Backspace to Delete

Context menus

• Added keyboard navigation to context menus
• Added keyboard trigger (Alt+Enter) for items, inputs and forms
• Added keyboard trigger (Alt+Shift+Enter) for windows and panels
• Added ability to take slider controls

UI

Changes

• Moved Account Settings to Settings panel
• Misc UI tweaks

Fixes

• Fixed intermittent context menu bug which caused it to not show
• Fixed Help Toggle bug preventing tabs beneath it being selected
• Fixed bug with Resources panel closing when context menu shown
• Fixed UiTabs not identifying active tab
• Fixed context menu alignment issue
• Fix zoom / pixel density in windows

Tools

• Tools > Export now only exports visible / filtered tabs
• Tool Panel now always opens on Tools (used to stay on last-focused panel)
• Added Performance option to Settings
• Added "Demo" layout to Arrange Windows
• Added "First use" notification popup
• Added link to releases in Settings

Setup

• Added privacy agreement page

System

Context menus

• Migrated context menu state to store
• rewrote context menu components

Refocus

• Added pseudo-focus capability to Refocus package
• Added pseudo-focus capability to menu store

Components

• Added UiSlider component
• Added UiMenuOpener component
• Added PageLayout component
• Added getDefaultName() utility
• Added section type / style to UiGroup
• Refactored InfoItem to flex to fill space
• Refactored UiPanel to inject UiMenu using slots

Styling

• Overhauled SCSS style files, variables, imports, etc
• Removed various font family / size / weight decisions from components
• Added initial appearance settings controls
• Introduced initial theme files

API

• Implemented new API
• Implemented dev and staging fallback api urls
• Implemented new account login flow

Account

• Moved user settings from User to User.Account
• Added optional quiet flag to Account.saveSettings()
• Refactored account settings to local settings
• Implemented refresh token
• Implemented Auth service

Internal

• Refactored popup commands to allow launching the popup on a specific path
• Introduced CommandSet type
• Overhauled Settings framework
• Added module init() hook
• Migrate to new storage helpers
• Simplify build scripts

Analytics

• Added initial product analytics

Tooling

• Simplify publishing pipeline

Bugs

• Fixed fast markdown conversion bug
• Fixed migrations

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