Forum Discussion
Collections UI
Hey All,
I like the idea of Collections a lot because it can group my most important pages. That said, I've got a few suggestions and would like to hear thoughts:
- The panel itself is too wide, especially since it's width is not adjustable. Not only would I like it to be adjustable, it would be nice if it collapsed into a bar, that would then expand when I put my mouse over it. Otherwise it doesn't feel like a tool I'd easily use all day, every day.
- The size if the page entries within it are huge. I'd like to be able to make them smaller so, should I add a bunch of them, I wouldn't have to scroll so much.
- It would be nice if you could assign a color to a Collection that would fill the background of it when it expands, which then also becomes the color of the tab itself when you open the page, so you have a visual cue as to where it came from.
- I'd like to be able to set pages within a collection to always open pinned.
That's it for now. The Chromium-based Edge is really great, and I love using it.
Thanks,
Scott
- +1 for all, and it would be great if collection was like a dropdown just like favorites, instead of such a big bully who collapses the web interface every time I use it.
- Well in that case Favorites are there to use, if they made Collections simple as Favorites then why even keep 2 identical features..
Well, they would be similar in opening (like dropdown). I don't get the point how could just making it dropdown would change it's functionality. Functionality would be same as it is now (improving gradually). It would be just easy to use as dropdown instead of some sideshow which collapses the original window.
The point is ' I don't care if it comes from up or side , just Original website should not be collapsed everytime I open the collections,'
I personally quite like the sidebar and styling as it currently is but would welcome the ability to reduce the screen real estate it uses. I am using large screens though , so I imagine on a smaller screen / laptop it would become more of an annoyance. Flexibility and configuration options I guess are the key issues here. As it stands you get what you are given and for many people it wont be ideal.
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philrice wrote:I personally quite like the sidebar and styling as it currently is but would welcome the ability to reduce the screen real estate it uses. I am using large screens though , so I imagine on a smaller screen / laptop it would become more of an annoyance. Flexibility and configuration options I guess are the key issues here. As it stands you get what you are given and for many people it wont be ideal.
Well no need to imagine because I have a standard 13" Inches Laptop beside my PC and I use it regularly, Edge collections panel never felt too big or too small in it.
also it's not like Collections panel is visible all the time, I only open it when I need to save something there or take something from it. so most of the time it's collapsed. when it's not collapsed and visible, I need the thumbnails to be my guide to know quickly what product, article, video, image, gif etc is saved there, otherwise I would have to open them all in tabs to see the contents which would be the same as favorites.
Agree and would also like to add that when entries have a thumbnail they take up even more space yet there doesnt seem to be a way to remove the thumbnail. I dont even think the thumbnail serves much purpose anyway to be honest , but at least we should be able to remove them individually or as a global setting to 'not display thumbnails'
rosenbloomsnka Thanks for the great suggestions, I'll pass this on to the Collections Team.
Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge- These are great ideas.
rosenbloomsnka HotCakeX I concur. Excellent suggestions. Hope they make it through.
- Nice suggestions, I want all of them too!
