Compacting the View – Hide Tips

  • queso

    (@queso)


    6 years, 3 months ago

    Now that I understand the plugin and have been using it a while, in the post/page options (bottom of the page) I find all the whitespace, tips, and ?’s very distracting and cluttered which make it take 3x as long to quickly review and tweak the per page options.

    I know these really need to be there to prevent novices from breaking their sites, but what would really be valuable to more advanced users is a “pro” mode which could just hide all the “fluff” (extra text and whitespace) with a goal of reducing the size of each script/style’s box. (should be easy enough with a tiny bit of CSS).

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  • Plugin Author Gabe Livan

    (@gabelivan)

    6 years, 3 months ago

    @queso thanks for the suggestion! A compact mode is something I’ve been thinking about for a while as I sometimes I find it time consuming to scroll through a long list of CSS/JS. I found the layout sorting options to be useful. Have you tried them all of them. When you mentioned about hiding all the “fluff” can you be more specific about it (besides hiding the tips)? I’m collecting feedback and once I have enough information, I could come up with a solution that should satisfy pretty much everyone.

    Thread Starter queso

    (@queso)

    6 years, 3 months ago

    I think part of the “visual” problem is that it actually seems to look MUCH better when the window is slightly smaller (~680px’ish) but when in a maximized 1920×1080 window there is a ton of empty real estate to the right.

    Hope this works, never tried it before… If so, sorry about the messyness. The colors don’t mean anything just used a few so you could see through the crossed lines. But if you basically:
    1) moved all the “descriptive” stuff to the top row (handle, source, file size, child of ___, etc.)
    2) put all the settings on the second row (and probably give that HEAD/BODY a matching white box)
    3) kept that same short third row for notes

    Well sorry can’t figure out how to get it to embed (thought I read somewhere that imgur ones could be embeded… on well if you can take a look at this picture… I tried to quickly sketch out what I was thinking… http://imgur.com/RO6yLMs

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