The sphinx-pydata-theme has great mobile support and lots of development energy
behind it. I don't want to switch themes again based on a sidebar sizing
concern. If the sidebar width is super important, we can adjust the CSS. The
standard CSS has this, which I think is what we'd want to adjust.
.container-xl {
max-width: 1400px
}
Scott Kruger <[email protected]> writes:
> 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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