[petsc-dev] empty space on left side of website pages

[Scott Kruger]

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 <bsmith at petsc.dev>:
> > 
> > 
> >    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 <patrick.sanan at gmail.com <mailto:patrick.sanan at gmail.com>> 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 <bsmith at petsc.dev <mailto:bsmith at petsc.dev>>:
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>>   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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