David: I think it's an interesting addition to "minimalist" design concepts in which folks have been trying to reduce what they see as visible clutter. I've noticed my Tiddlers have been moving in this direction for several years. However, I never really thought of applying this to the Sidebar area before now. (Taken to its limits, a single pixel in the upper left corned of the focus area might be the ideal 'de-clutter'.)
Instead, in the Sidebar, I've used the standard Sidebar components to host CamelCase links to persistent entry points as a balance of the Ultimate possibility against practical efficienciess. Your suggestion has piqued my interest in trying customizing the SideBar area. I suspect this will end up being tailored by individual users for the own preferences and by Edition authors for their applications. It will be interesting to see how far this proceeds. Thanks for this idea "spark" as well as your many other contributions. On Friday, March 5, 2021 at 9:34:38 PM UTC-5 David Gifford wrote: > Thanks Chris! > > On Friday, March 5, 2021 at 4:05:23 PM UTC-6 clutterstack wrote: > >> David, >> >> I like it on my screen. I don't have strong feelings about it in general, >> but my first impression is that Control Panel access through the sidebar >> may be more intuitive than opening it in the story. That is affected by the >> sidebar width, of course. Then, given that you're putting more config stuff >> in the sidebar, it starts to make sense to have a hierarchy of tabs, and >> the Tools tab fits right in with the other Setup tabs -- except that >> occasionally it is useful as a collection of buttons I don't use a lot. >> That's the problem with a hierarchy...and not a specific problem with this >> idea. >> >> I guess the Work tab would be filled with whatever the author likes to >> have one click away. >> >> I think this is an interesting idea that caters for both newer TW admins >> and for wikis that have a separation between author and user, which are >> both good angles to explore. >> >> Best, >> Chris >> >> On Friday, March 5, 2021 at 3:51:26 PM UTC-5 David Gifford wrote: >> >>> Oh and I am not trying to be conceited by my adding of my Toggle tab. >>> Just thinking that some of those items could be in those two areas... >>> >>> On Friday, March 5, 2021 at 2:50:30 PM UTC-6 David Gifford wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi all >>>> >>>> Don't know what got into me. Just an idea to reorganize the tabs >>>> conceptually and move the control panel items into the tabs. This is just >>>> slapped together and is not done properly. More like a proof of concept >>>> than an actual thing. Looking for feedback more on the choices made rather >>>> than the behind the scenes execution. >>>> >>>> https://giffmex.org/experiments/sidebar.concept.html >>>> >>> -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/ba48b9dc-6f0c-431f-ac12-e5d012a20931n%40googlegroups.com.
