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Request: A toggle to switch off redundant descriptions for toolbar items #3344

Open TiddlyTweeter opened 6 years ago

TiddlyTweeter commented 6 years ago

The visual elegance of $:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Toolbars and $:/core/ui/SideBar/Tools particularly are spoiled by excess descriptions. The visual simplicity of good design gets messed up by the long descriptions. For instance:

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I assume the explicit descriptions are needed for some type of usage (mobile?) But they break nice layout on all platforms.

REQUEST: A toggle in the control panel to turn OFF the explicit descriptions.

See https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywikidev/ovqLBzqeVWE/WOfXsgusAAAJ for a brief discussion.

diego898 commented 6 years ago

Maybe description on hover along with the toggle for mobile?

AnthonyMuscio commented 6 years ago

Since in desktop mode, the description is already available with mouse over, perhaps all we need to do is to make it clear the description is there and this flows over to mobile mode. For example an info icon with the same tooltip that mouse over replacing the description, and in mobile requires a click/touch that throws a popup.

I like the full description in the page toolbar especially when I create my own buttons, so I would prefer at most a sticky toggle there.

Regards Tony

AnthonyMuscio commented 6 years ago

The descriptions in the page toolbar could use wrapping or extend over the right hand side.