Open twMat opened 9 years ago
Hi @twMat. The underlying tiddler title is $:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/storywidth
, and it is indeed only used for the left position of the sidebar.
The history is that the same value was originally also be used as the tiddler width, so the name was reasonable. We should have changed the tiddler title to $:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/storywidth
back in the beta; I think it's too late now. We could change the caption text, though, albeit it would no longer be consistent with the title of the underlying configuration tiddler.
I just wrote a post on a related issue on the boards.
We could change the caption text, though, albeit it would no longer be consistent with the title of the underlying configuration tiddler.
+1. Applying some kind of utilitaristic perspective, I believe it would reduce the total amount of confusion i.e including that it may add some confusion for someone discovering the actual inconsistency. Particularly, I think it would reduce confusion for the group most important to reduce it for.
Why is too late? Should we live with an inconsistent name forever? This kind of things happens, but should be changed or we will end with a spaghetti of weird names.
Why is too late?
Changing the title of the underlying configuration tiddler would break existing wikis that had customised those settings (unless we wrote the appropriate rules into the upgrader modules, which is a lot of trouble to go to in the circumstances).
Maybe we should invest some time improving the upgrader to handle this kind of collisions. This way breaking backwards compatibility would be less risky
Maybe we should invest some time improving the upgrader to handle this kind of collisions. This way breaking backwards compatibility would be less risky
:+1: never considered this before
One issue is that the upgrader isn't used for Node.js upgrades, so we'd need a new mechanism to handle those
Regarding the OP;
$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/sidebarleft
.../storyright
tiddler to transclude the value from this new tiddler.../storyright
to use the new tiddler.Thus, the misleading .../storyright
will get a passive role (which IMO is better than a prominent+misleading role) and any user made stuff referring to it will still work.
Eventually, when there's collision handling in the upgrader, such passive tiddlers could be outphased.
@Jermolene ... label "improvement"
Ctrlpanel > Appearence > Theme Tweaks
As clear from the description of it, this is in fact not "Story right" but "Sidebar left"