Exceedingly wide sidebar... Why?

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Feanaaro
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Exceedingly wide sidebar... Why?

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I just upgraded to 4.0. Literally the first thing I noticed is that I cannot make the sidebar (structure-index-story) as narrow as I could before. This is majorly inconvenient, because on my screen (a not too small 15" Retina Macbook pro) that means that I have either not to use the sidebar, use a way too small size for the document, or have side scrolling in it which is just silly.
Please, please, please, consider making the sidebar fully resizable, or at least significantly decrease the minimum width – the structure-story-index buttons at the top have some whitespace, and the font size could be reduced/collapsed into just a icon.. or you could make them as vertical tabs... or you could make us choose whether we want to see all three or only one or two of them; either of these would allow for a narrower sidebar.
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Re: Exceedingly wide sidebar... Why?

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I agree on this one. The sidebar should be resizable or you should be able to choose if you want all three structure-index-story or not in the sidebar.
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Re: Exceedingly wide sidebar... Why?

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Please note that the side bar is resizable but the minimum size with Mellel 4.0 is wider than it used to be. We will try to allow making it narrower with the upcoming release.
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Re: Exceedingly wide sidebar... Why?

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Eyal Redler wrote: Tue Sep 05, 2017 3:31 pm Please note that the side bar is resizable but the minimum size with Mellel 4.0 is wider than it used to be. We will try to allow making it narrower with the upcoming release.
Please make it an option to choose between all three, only two or only one of the structure-index-story fields in the sidebar.
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Re: Exceedingly wide sidebar... Why?

Post by dgbeecher »

I want to add my agreement: it would be so great if the minimum width of the sidebar could be narrower.

I also agree with the suggestion to allow hiding the Story and Index tabs. These are cool features, but I don't see myself ever using them for the kind of writing I do. Perhaps there is room in the Document Setup panel for a new setting such that these features can be enabled/disabled on a per-document basis?
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Re: Exceedingly wide sidebar... Why?

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+1 for making possible to disable Index & Story!
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Re: Exceedingly wide sidebar... Why?

Post by Eyal Redler »

Just a quick note. We hope to fix this issue for Mellel 4.1, we didn't have enough time to solve this issue for Mellel 4.0.1.
I see that people here blame the story and index features for this problem but in fact the issue is not related to that, and certainly no to the three way selector at the top. Please don't blame these innocent features for your not-narrow-enough-pane troubles.
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