Hey everybody, Thanks for the responses! On Thursday, October 2, 2014 7:58:33 AM UTC-7, Danielo Rodríguez wrote: > > Looks like you are so used to TWC that you don't want to leave away any > single detail. >
Not at all. Just most of the visual, surface elements. > > Instead of asking for turn TW5 into TWC I think it should be better to > stick to TWC and ask to update its core to work with modern browsers and > modern ways of saving. A new core of TWC has been released recently, so I > think the project stills alive. > > The problem with that is that the entire architecture of it is incompatible; it CANNOT be just tweaked to work with modern browsers, and even if it could be, it won't be. it's legacy, and is gonna stay that way. And even if it were possible, there are so many features of TW5, that I want... > Why do you want to switch to TW5? From your description I think that > adapting TWC would fit better your needs since you don't like any of the > news that comes with TW5. > > Oh, to the contrary! I just can't stand the SURFACE, visual elements of it, which, for me, waste up tons of vertical and horizontal space. I'm quite eager to try out many of the new functionalities of TW5. I am just not proficient enough at CSS and HTML to do the basic adjustments I'm wanting. > Regards > > El jueves, 2 de octubre de 2014 15:56:26 UTC+2, Leo Staley escribió: >> >> One of the biggest hurdles to me adopting TW5 is the visual layout. >> >> Virtually every visual change from TWC to TW5, I find to be downright >> intolerable for my own uses, From there only being one sidebar, and >> further, one which takes up so much space and scrolls separately from the >> story river, to buttons now being icons, to the wikitext and text display >> rules which take up so much more vertical space, to the total lack of an >> equivalent "tiddler's bar >> <http://visualtw.ouvaton.org/VisualTW.html#TiddlersBarPlugin>", or the >> splendid, comprehensive-yet-compact display of tags with TagglyTagging >> <http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#TagglyTagging>(demonstrated here quite well >> <http://tbgtd.tiddlyspot.com/#action>). >> >> Several months ago, I tried doing it myself a few times, but it was too >> hard for me. So, for quite a while now I've been strongly hoping and >> waiting for a TWC theme for TW5, with the top bar, 2 side bars that scroll >> with the page (and occupy much less horizontal space), and text display and >> wikitext rules which keep things much more compact, like TWC. Now that 5.1x >> has been released, I figured it would be a fair time to ask again. >> >> Main parts of the request are: >> >> * 3 column display with a top bar, mimicking very closely TWC's layout >> * text buttons instead of just the icons (and so it can be more compact) >> * generally more compact display of text, like in TWC. >> * "Tiddler's bar" for having tabs to show open tiddlers >> * TagglyTagging style display of tags(optional, if possible, and >> customizable like TagglyTagging. I particularly enjoy being able to >> dynamically change the sort order based on different criteria, and changing >> the number of columns used to display them ) >> >> I could also really go for some of those other really nice, visually >> helpful plugins, like NestedSlidersPlugin >> <http://www.tiddlytools.com/#NestedSlidersPlugin>, the pleasantly >> customizable TagSearch <http://www.tiddlytools.com/#NestedSlidersPlugin> >> and SimpleTreePlugin <http://simpletree.tiddlyspace.com/#Example>, and >> the QuickEditToolbar <http://tiddlytools.com/#QuickEditPackage> too, but >> I don't wanna go overboard here. >> >> Yes. I do know that this actually would happen to be a lot more work than >> i'm making it sound like. But I would be unendingly grateful, and, now that >> I myself am employed too, would be willing to donate to the tidldywiki >> cause in order to have this (set of) wish(es) somehow granted. >> >> I'd also then try to produce, from that, some basic packages to help >> other beginners get started into Tiddlywiki. Anyway, toodles to y'all, and >> good luck. >> > -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
