Rather than have us edit the CSS, perhaps just getting people to agree
to a different theme:
https://sphinx-themes.org/
I think alabaster, aiohttp, cloud_sptheme, ... meet Barry's complaint.
There is a lot to like on the kotti_docs_theme for example although the
bar is on the right instead of the left.
Scott
On 2021-04-26 08:58, Patrick Sanan did write:
> As far as I know (which isn't very far, with web stuff), changing things on
> that level requires somehow getting into CSS.
>
> For instance, you can see what it looks like with other widths directly from
> Firefox (fun, didn't know you could do this):
> - go to the page
> - hit F12
> - click around on the left to find the <div> that corresponds to the part you
> care about
> - look in the middle column to find the piece of CSS that's controlling
> things (here, something called .col-md-3)
> - edit the CSS - in attached screenshot I change the max width of that
> sidebar to 5%.
>
> But, I want to avoid having to do things on the level of CSS and HTML - I
> think that should be done as a collective effort in maintaining the theme
> (and Sphinx itself).
> If we really care enough about the width of that sidebar, we'll create a fork
> of the theme, add a setting for it, and try to get it merged to the theme's
> release branch.
>
>
> > Am 23.04.2021 um 23:12 schrieb Barry Smith <[email protected]>:
> >
> >
> > Thanks. Even if we just leave it is there a way to make it a little
> > "skinnier", it seems very wide in my default browser.
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Apr 23, 2021, at 1:08 PM, Patrick Sanan <[email protected]
> >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >>
> >> It is possible to put things there, as in this link which is both
> >> documentation and example:
> >> https://pydata-sphinx-theme.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/sections.html#the-left-sidebar
> >>
> >> <https://pydata-sphinx-theme.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/sections.html#the-left-sidebar>
> >>
> >> Other projects using this theme have the mostly-empty left sidebar:
> >> https://numpy.org/doc/stable/ <https://numpy.org/doc/stable/>
> >> https://jupyter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
> >> <https://jupyter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>
> >>
> >> (They also have fancier landing pages, though, which we have been
> >> discussing).
> >>
> >>
> >> It goes away on mobile devices or small windows, at least.
> >>
> >>
> >>> Am 23.04.2021 um 19:21 schrieb Barry Smith <[email protected]
> >>> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> There is a lot of empty space on the left side of the website pages;
> >>> under the Search slot. Does this empty left side need to be so large,
> >>> seems to waste a lot of the screen?
> >>>
> >>> Barry
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
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