Hi, There is 1 more truth about "content tiddlers". Some of them should be editable, but hidden from most users. We call them "system tiddlers <https://tiddlywiki.com/#SystemTiddlers:SystemTiddlers%20%5B%5BNaming%20of%20System%20Tiddlers%5D%5D>".
They can be found in the Right Sidebar : More : System tab have fun! mario On Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 3:38:00 PM UTC+1 ludwa6 wrote: > What you've written here @mario strikes me as such a good & concise > summary of what i think it important to know about tiddlers, i am > committing it immediately to its own tiddler. Thanks, man! /walt > > > On Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 2:20:37 PM UTC PMario wrote: > >> Hi, >> TW has 2 types of tiddlers. There are "standard" content tiddlers, which >> are created by users. User created content always wins! >> >> Then there are so called "shadow" tiddlers. Plugins and the "core" >> tiddlers are shadow tiddlers. That means, if you change them "after a >> warning" they become content tiddlers. So your changes always win.. >> >> BUT if you messed something up, you can delete the content tiddler and >> the "shadow" tiddler will take over again. So you are pretty safe. >> >> If you added a plugin, that doesn't work there is a "safe mode" see: >> https://tiddlywiki.com/#SafeMode >> >> The ControlPanel : Info tab, has a info named "Overwritten Shadow >> tiddlers". ... If you click the "search" icon, you'll get a list of all >> shadows, you have changed. So it's easy to find out, what you changed. >> >> -mario >> >> On Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 2:42:16 PM UTC+1 ludwa6 wrote: >> >>> This is good to hear, @Odin -thanks. >>> Still i wonder what sorts of changes i might make that become important >>> to my UX, my workflow, that might later get undone through installation of >>> some plugin or TW upgrade... Leaving me to try and figure out how i made >>> that change who-knows-how long ago. >>> Unreasonable as it is to want guarantees about such things, i can't help >>> wishing for some rule(s) of thumb -or guardrails, as it were- to tell what >>> sorts of changes are safe to make, and which others could either break >>> something important or else get broken in a future upgrade. >>> >>> On Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 1:00:41 PM UTC Odin wrote: >>> >>>> Palettes will persist through version upgrades. In general, backwards >>>> compatibility is required with new versions. So if you are changing >>>> settings through the control panel it won't lock you out of new updates. >>>> A palette is just another Tiddler, so it will always be easy to adjust >>>> or remove it. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Op zondag 10 januari 2021 om 13:45:03 UTC+1 schreef ludwa6: >>>> >>>>> Yeah, being ever-afraid of any tweaks that might break something, that >>>>> is why i opted for the built-in customisation option over that >>>>> CSS-override >>>>> solution... But thanks anyway, @makiaea for pointing it out. >>>>> >>>>> AND, speaking of my fear of breakage, a related question for me is, >>>>> regarding any styling changes that i apply thru control panel >>>>> affordances, >>>>> i wonder: can i rest assured that they will persist through any version >>>>> upgrades or plugin installs that i might later perform? >>>>> >>>>> /walt >>>>> >>>>> On Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 12:36:09 PM UTC PMario wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 1:27:16 PM UTC+1 ma...@makiaea.org >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> hi walt, you can use !important in a css override, here are some >>>>>>> examples http://makiaea.org/00045/20201205makiaea-anwiki#quiz.css >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> You should _not_ use !important ... It's toxic and will cause a lot >>>>>> of problems in the long run. With TW you can change almost everything in >>>>>> a >>>>>> relatively easy way. !important is "brute force" >>>>>> -m >>>>>> >>>>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/e472f0d1-f5f7-4365-9562-ad8fc4f372f7n%40googlegroups.com.
