Also, I keep a list of customizations I made to my personal wiki. A changelog as you can call it. This helps me remember what I did in case I need to revert it into the future. For example, I added some CSS that works with a particular theme. If I change themes in the future I can find that CSS easier to revert it.
Op zondag 10 januari 2021 om 15:20:37 UTC+1 schreef PMario: > 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/f0e1b882-c8d6-497a-9356-87588a51bc04n%40googlegroups.com.
