Thanks all for the encouragement. @Mat - 1. Thin gaps and Hide gaps are two separate on/off toggles. They control two separate stylesheets. One adjusts between TW default gap and a thinner gap, and the other between the TW default gap and no gap. But the problem is that when one is on, the other is unavailable. At some point I may research how to do a button that cycles through several options. But as they stand, they conform to the idea that all of my buttons are on and off toggles. "Subtitle: on/off." "Thin frames: on/off" . "Small titles: on/off." Or: "What do you want to be visible in your TW?" Title, subtitle, thin frames, backlinks as transclusion, etc. That explains my labeling convention. CleanTids did have "Gaps btwn tids" but as you can see I deliberately changed it to match this labeling convention. Question of taste.
2. Yeah, tiddler titles...I didn't quite understand what you were suggesting, but here is what my thought process was: the viewtoolbar is in a sense bundled with the titles into a titlebar, and I have never liked that decision, because it makes styling titles more complicated. And now obviously it also decreases the value of hiding the titlebar. My wish would be that default TWs would have the viewtoolbar invisible and then visible on hover anywhere in the tiddler frame, and totally disconnected from the title. But I am pretty sure that having separate buttons to toggle titles and the viewtoolbar would require changing a bunch of shadow tiddlers, and might conflict with users' configurations, and would require updating the plugin with every update to TiddlyWiki. That is not something I wanted to do. I opted for the simpler solution of just letting people toggle the titlebar on and off. I figure no one is going to want to hide titles all the time, they are just going to do so for certain temporary uses. 3. I had a similar thought. I thought about a toggle for the seamless theme (rather than a white palette), but I decided instead to keep it clean and let the user decide the palette/theme with no nudging from me. Introducing a specific palette or theme makes this seem more like an edition and less like a plugin for helping others decide what they want. On Monday, March 1, 2021 at 5:40:30 AM UTC-6 Mat wrote: > Nice David! Some ideas/opinions: > > The buttons in the sidebar are (seemingly!) a mix of toggles and single > value buttons. But they are really all toggles, which is not clear. For > example, it IS clear that "Title" is a toggle because it is a single > button. But "Gaps btw tiddlers: Thin * Hide" appear to be two single > setting buttons but they are both the same toggle with different labels. > Because the results in the tiddler river is immediately visible, you might > consider decluttring such buttons to only be a single toggling button with > the description as its label. For that particular example this would mean a > button with the label "Gaps btw tiddlers" (or perhaps "Tiddler gap" or just > "Gap" perhaps next to static text saying: "between tiddlers") and the > button toggles between the values. > > In the same vein, instead of the label "Thin frames" it would make more > sense with "Frame thickness". Etc for a few other such toggles. I.e using > the name of the characteristics rather than the "value" of the > characteristics. > > Tiddler titles are often informative as headings, but not always. There > could be a small toggle next to each title to set a tag or a field. Some > stylesheet states that any tiddler with such a tag hides the title row. > > Even when titles should be seen, the tiddler toolbar buttons should > probably not be visible unless hovered. > > A palette or theme of particular interest might be one where the page > background is white or perhaps just the river background is white, i.e so > the tiddlers seem to join. Maybe this special case warrants a direct toggle > button? > > <:-) > > On Monday, March 1, 2021 at 12:13:10 PM UTC+1 TiddlyTweeter wrote: > >> *"I love you and want to have your babies".* >> >> My *real *message? Really that it is GOOD you go towards plugins for >> your contributions to TW. >> >> They work well, are wanted & used! >> >> Basically it is a Fixxgig moment <https://youtu.be/M1FCqDJMWgY> :-) >> >> TT >> >> David Gifford wrote >> >>> Yes, you read that right, I finally got off my bum and learned Tinka and >>> created my very first plugin. >>> >> -- 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/6ea12c09-178c-4c2d-8ab0-b36b30643ee8n%40googlegroups.com.
