Control Space 18

Tighter integration with bookmarks and new organisational features

Version 18.14.0.398 committed on Dec 27 2023

Release notes

Name changes

Naming

• "Saved tabs" are now "Bookmarks"

Actions

• "Save" is now "Bookmark" / Cmd+B
• "Export" is now "Share" Cmd+S

Visibility

Tab states

• Duplicate tabs are identified with a mauve striped background
• Bookmarked tabs identified with a bright yellow ★
• Open resources (Bookmarks, History) are identified with a striped grey background

Icons

• "Open" tabs now use a "page" icon
• "Bookmarked" tabs now use a "bookmark" icon

Organisation

Duplicate tabs management

• Tab context menu has a "Close duplicates" option
• Toolbar now has a "Duplicates" button:
  • Shows number of duplicate tabs
  • Click to close all duplicates

Improved Bookmark dialog / folder picker

• Toggle between workspaces and folders
  • Use the shortcut Alt+3
• Filter folders and bookmarks:
  • Toggle with the shortcut Cmd+F
  • Or, whilst the columns view is focused, just type
  • Type / to filter folders
  • Hit Esc to clear then cancel

Improved Move Tabs dialog

• Dialog now uses columns view
• Can move tab to window or tab position
• Supports filtering (same as Bookmark dialog)

Simplified Selection

• Simplified selections; you can now select only tabs or only bookmarks at one time
• Cancelling (Esc) now clears clipboard and selection

Better Copy and Paste

• Universal Clipboard; you can now cross-copy to/from tabs/bookmarks
• Copy now available as shortcut (Cmd+C) and menu item

Resources

Bookmark panel

• "Saved" button now displays "Workspaces" or "Folders" accordingly
• Added workspaces toggle button

Locate open items

• Alt+Click any Recent, History or Bookmark items' icon
• Or use the shortcut Cmd+L

Simplified Edit and Rename

• Actions have been consolidated as "Edit" (Cmd+E)
• You can edit Bookmarks, Folders, Windows – even Tabs

Tooling

"Loaded tabs" indicator

• New toolbar control indicates:
  • number of loaded tabs
  • low and high indicators (set at 20 and 50 tabs)
• Click the control to sleep all but the last 10 visited tabs

"Slow wake-up tabs" tool

• Now has a "Cancel" option

General

Popup

• Control Space no longer hijacks the native close keyboard shortcut

Help

• Organised popup into sections and added Release Notes

Setup

• Made the Privacy Policy link more obvious

Fixes

Tabs

• Emojis now stripped from tab titles
• Audio animation now stops when sleeping audible tabs
• Waking tabs no longer modifies history
• Fixed New Window duplicate tab bug

Windows

• "Select All" toggle now works correctly on filtered windows
• Window now no-longer draggable via window menu icons

Workspace

• "Export" now correctly exports filtered content
• Fixed bug with scrolling to top after a drag/drop
• Fixed bug with Folder Picker not focusing first input

Resources

• "Locate" now only shows if tab is bookmarked
• "Locate" now replaces "Bookmark..." if already bookmarked
• Folder Picker defaults to last-saved folder
• Fixed bug with Locate not always working
• Fixed bug with column size when not showing workspaces

Items:

• All items now show default cursor on the icon

System

UI

• Refactor ToolbarControl and ToolbarCount components
• Minor tweaks to UiColumns
• Prevent Enter key prematurely firing a Click event in UiMenuItem

Maintenance

• Remove user module
• Migrate debug module to sandbox
• Remove options page

Workspace

• Refactor items to items module
• Extract WindowMatrix to simple component
• Refactor models to support metadata
• Implement tab metadata
• Add state mediators

Resources

• Refactored bookmarks to use pending state

Services, models and packages

• Refactor Clipboard to items module
• Refactor Selection to store
• Refactor Dtos

Ops

• Add ops CLI tool
• Fix version numbers in CLI
• Inject isClient into build

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