Control Space 1.0 Beta 5

Refactor of Recent Tabs, various UX improvements, bug fixes

Version 1.0.5.0 committed on Sep 21 2020

Release notes

Recent tabs

General

• Complete refactor of Recent Tabs
• Extension now tracks a configurable number (currently 150) of closed tabs

New tab (re-)opening strategy

• Show tab if it is currently open
• If closed, check for tab in session and if found, reopen in previous position with previous history
• If not found in session, create new tab from URL, attempting in previous position
• Finally, just create new tab from URL in current window

New history functionality

• List is now populated on browser open with history of open tabs
• Reopened tabs include session history information if available
• Tabs now indicate in tooltip how long ago they were visited
• Duplicate closed items are automatically pruned (configurable)

Changes

• Removed (intentional) delay on updating tab list when activating tab

Bug Fixes

• Fixed all bugs with tabs not reopening properly
• Settings are now saved between reloads

Workspace

UI

• Tabs now show their "unloaded" status by appearing grey
• Columns now optimise their widths to the available space
• Made dragging transitions smoother
• Added "Detach Tabs From Here" menu item
• Removed fade in/out from context menu
• Make "Select All" select by window, then workspace
• Replace site name with URL when hovered or focused

System restart

• New bootstrap sequence restores / fixes window + tab data only on startup

Bug fixes

• Window names now correctly restore after browser restart
• Window names now saved and restored if a closed window is restored
• Fixed arrow keys not working in text inputs
• Fixed double-click area to reveal active tab
• Fixed double-click in window title editing centering workspace

Search

• Search now allows multiple text fragments, i.e. git java

System

• Added settings framework
• Added background bootstrap
• Added debugging module
• Added fake browser test suite
• Added migration routines
• Refactor all commands/ and events/ files and folders under messaging/
• Major refactor of Workspace and Recent Tabs to proper services and state
• Move api/bus to @/packages/bus
• Move core/services/ to @/core/common/services

Build

• Migrated to TypeScript
• Fixed GitHub private package installation
• Now skips Babel transformation for async/await
• Added collection-fns
• Remove console output in release build

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