Here are Some additional elements for styling; - Tag Color standards - Tag Icons - Tiddler Icons - Tiddler color field - Tiddler Class field
How would you suggest we use these? What can you think of? Regards Tones On Saturday, 29 August 2020 14:42:04 UTC+10, TW Tones wrote: > > Folks, > > I have being playing with CSS and its integration into TiddlyWiki and > realise there is more than enough opportunity especially with the new Custom > styles by data tags > <https://tiddlywiki.com/#Custom%20styles%20by%20data-tags> etc... to > realise a smart, subtle and intuitive interface. > > This is not an idea for a theme, nor even just CSS but taking a range > tiddlywiki tiddler and page elements, that change and provide a subtle > variation particularly with colour, pale backgrounds, boarder style, > thickness and shadows. > > Examples may be > > - A pail green background when a tiddler is in draft mode, > - A Dark a green border if the tiddler begins with "New Tiddler" > - A yellow boarder if the tiddler is an Orphan > - A Pale grey background if the tiddler an unedited shadow > - and many more > > The idea is to take common facts about tiddlers or the wiki as a whole and > use these to leave subtle messages to the user > > - We need not know the exact detail of such indicators, because if you > use a consistent set they will become evident over time. > - This would be supported further, if we *produce a de facto > standard and shared it widely *(or added to the standard > distribution) > - They should be designed for light and dark themes and not influence > the overall theme too much. > - Scanning down the story list it will be quick and easy to locate > tiddlers based on these subtle colors > - When viewing or editing a tiddler various things will be evident > that may not normally be visible, like this tiddler is also a tag. > - Using color and other elements, even just coloured shadows will not > impact the layout in anyway. > - Perhaps something similar could be added to the standard list item > so links suggest the tiddlers content as well. > - All this could be toggled on and off with a click. > > So I started this topic for *feedback and inspiration from the community*, > if you have any ideas such as the following please comment. > > - Identify elements we can style in both view and edit mode > - Suggested meaning for things like dotted boarders > - Or meaning full associations with colors eg; red warning, green new, > etc... > - What are the ways to identify these different attributes? eg no > tags/tags {{{ [{!!tags}is[blank]then[notags]] }}} {{{ > [{!!tags}!is[blank]then[hastags]] }}} > - Indicating an over all wikimode? > > To support this effort I have also built a library of more than 800 named > colours, so a spectrum of colours can be used eg "Bigger tiddlers darker > boarder" etc... > > Regards > TW Tones > -- 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/2f0adff4-8f55-4b6e-80c9-c7ce895fbc70o%40googlegroups.com.
