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It takes two clicks to open a link in a relation. Ideally, it should take one click to open the link.
Describe the solution you’d like
Left-clicking on a link in a relation should open the link and the current behaviour could be transferred to a new icon which could look like the rename icon in the sets and which would also appear on the right end of the field.
Currently, the fields with the “relation type = URL” have a behaviour that is not very intuitive. When we click on a URL, what happens is that 2 options emerge: “Open Link” and “Copy Link”, which means that if I want to open an URL, I’ll have to click twice in order to open the page. Please see the image below:
What I recommend, is that when we click on a link inside a URL relation, the default behaviour would be the link to open.
When we have a field with an URL, we may want to do one of 4 things:
1 - Click over the link to open the page;
2 - Copy the link to clipboard;
3 - Edit the link;
4 - Delete the link.
My suggestion is that when we left click over the link it opens (default behaviour) and the other 3 options would be available by right clicking.
Open any URL fast and easy. When we have a link, most of the time what people want to do is click on it.
Currently, if we click over the 3 dots on the top right of the page, there’s an option called “lock page”. Locking the page makes the URL’s clickable without having to give a 2nd click. But this is not intuitive, so most people will never even discover that this option exists.
There are plenty of content that we can insert inside Anytype where URL’s are present. So it’s important that URL’s behave on a “natural way” (click and it opens).
I want to be able to open the URL of the source of an object (for example a bookmark) without having to open the object
In the rows of a set or collection, right clicking an object would have an entry in the menu “Open link” without having to open the object.
I have a lot of bookmarks and I usually see them in a set. I want to be able to open 3 or 4 of them, and entering each object in order to do so it is a slowdown.
In a Set or a Collection you could add the Source relation to the table.
When you then click on the source value, you get the context menu with the option to open the URL
In other views (like galery or list) it gets opened directly. It’s just the Grid option where you have to click on the value first to get the option to open it.
For example, if you set the view to a list style, you can click the link directly.
Thanks for the quick response.
I already use columns for name, author and year, which are more meaningful than a URL…
I also plan to add tags, so in total they already take some considerable horizontal space.
maybe an option could be added to show an icon before to the name on each column.
when the user clicks that icon, it would open the link.
Do you mind if we merge this with:
sure!
