Part of the reason that the huge, empty sidebar looks so bad is that it's on
the front page - in the interests of simplicity and focusing on getting the
build stable, I haven't been focusing on it, but there is still discussion to
be had about whether and how to make a prettier front/landing page.
> Am 26.04.2021 um 21:05 schrieb Jed Brown <j...@jedbrown.org>:
>
> The sphinx-pydata-theme has great mobile support and lots of development
> energy behind it. I don't want to switch themes again based on a sidebar
> sizing concern. If the sidebar width is super important, we can adjust the
> CSS. The standard CSS has this, which I think is what we'd want to adjust.
>
> .container-xl {
> max-width: 1400px
> }
>
> Scott Kruger <kru...@txcorp.com> writes:
>
>> Rather than have us edit the CSS, perhaps just getting people to agree
>> to a different theme:
>> https://sphinx-themes.org/
>>
>> I think alabaster, aiohttp, cloud_sptheme, ... meet Barry's complaint.
>>
>> There is a lot to like on the kotti_docs_theme for example although the
>> bar is on the right instead of the left.
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> On 2021-04-26 08:58, Patrick Sanan did write:
>>> As far as I know (which isn't very far, with web stuff), changing things on
>>> that level requires somehow getting into CSS.
>>>
>>> For instance, you can see what it looks like with other widths directly
>>> from Firefox (fun, didn't know you could do this):
>>> - go to the page
>>> - hit F12
>>> - click around on the left to find the <div> that corresponds to the part
>>> you care about
>>> - look in the middle column to find the piece of CSS that's controlling
>>> things (here, something called .col-md-3)
>>> - edit the CSS - in attached screenshot I change the max width of that
>>> sidebar to 5%.
>>>
>>> But, I want to avoid having to do things on the level of CSS and HTML - I
>>> think that should be done as a collective effort in maintaining the theme
>>> (and Sphinx itself).
>>> If we really care enough about the width of that sidebar, we'll create a
>>> fork of the theme, add a setting for it, and try to get it merged to the
>>> theme's release branch.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Am 23.04.2021 um 23:12 schrieb Barry Smith <bsm...@petsc.dev>:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks. Even if we just leave it is there a way to make it a little
>>>> "skinnier", it seems very wide in my default browser.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Apr 23, 2021, at 1:08 PM, Patrick Sanan <patrick.sa...@gmail.com
>>>>> <mailto:patrick.sa...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> It is possible to put things there, as in this link which is both
>>>>> documentation and example:
>>>>> https://pydata-sphinx-theme.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/sections.html#the-left-sidebar
>>>>>
>>>>> <https://pydata-sphinx-theme.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/sections.html#the-left-sidebar>
>>>>>
>>>>> Other projects using this theme have the mostly-empty left sidebar:
>>>>> https://numpy.org/doc/stable/ <https://numpy.org/doc/stable/>
>>>>> https://jupyter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
>>>>> <https://jupyter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>
>>>>>
>>>>> (They also have fancier landing pages, though, which we have been
>>>>> discussing).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It goes away on mobile devices or small windows, at least.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Am 23.04.2021 um 19:21 schrieb Barry Smith <bsm...@petsc.dev
>>>>>> <mailto:bsm...@petsc.dev>>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is a lot of empty space on the left side of the website pages;
>>>>>> under the Search slot. Does this empty left side need to be so large,
>>>>>> seems to waste a lot of the screen?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Barry
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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