Am I interpreting your post right: You're basically describing a "one-tiddler-at-a-time" view that depending on which the current tiddler is has a particular theme (look, set of tools etc). Yes?
I find that to be an interesting thought. I have myself considered a dropdown list where you could choose application desired for the moment, so that a specifc menu show for one appliction, a set of default tiddlers in another, particular toolmenu in a third etc. With the node.js version, allowing you to have a huge pile of tiddlers, each selection in the dropdown menu would in be like a par of "viewing glasses" that lets you look at some subset of tiddlers in a specific environment. <.-) On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 10:30:48 PM UTC+1, Nicholas Spies wrote: > > I may have brought this up before, but I think it warrants repeating. > > In Squeak, the open source descendent of Smalltalk-80, the Mother of All > GUIs, there is a concept or GUI conceit, if you will, called a Project. > > A Project presents the user with a portal into a whole different > instantiation of Squeak, with different themes (in TW-speak), window > configurations (= tiddlers), and so forth. The visual effect is just a > circle wipe (in TV terminology), centered on the icon representing the > project starting with a small round (or shaped) hole which moves outwards, > towards the edges of the TW window, revealing the content of the new > context. The apparent effect is diving down a rabbit hole into a new > context or world. After work is done within the Project you can return to > the place from whence you came by simply backing out. > > This would allow a single-file TW file to emulate multiple environments, > each with a distinctive look and feel. In other words, themes would be > given a meaning that they do not now have; themes are now just different > ways of icing the cake, in that they apply to the entire TW file and do not > serve to differentiate between different "applications" within the TW file. > > Even if this were implemented as a visual way of navigating between what > would in fact be different TW files, it would be more intuitive. > particularly for the end user, as it would be just another viewing > paradigm, on a par with classic, pop and zoomin. But in addition to being a > story visualization, it would also be a framework for creating Projects (in > Squeak-speak), either anew or from existing TW files. > > Jeremy's recent "Star Wars"-title-sequence-style is a great addition to > story visualizations. I feel that the more such visualizations provided, > the more playful TW becomes, and thus more appealing. The Project idea, > although suggested by Squeak Projects, is just another approach to the same > end, but with some additional functionality. > > -Nick Spies > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" 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/tiddlywikidev. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
