Re: [Tiki-devel] [Tikiwiki-users] new Tiki basic offcanvas layout

+1

I almost don’t use anymore the righ and left col.

Fixed top (branding + menu) and admin menu at the bottom mostly.

Refreshing Tiki layout is a good idea.

Bernard


> On 11 Dec 2017, at 01:52 , Torsten <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello friends,
> 
> since about Tiki 15 my confidence in the Tiki layout decreases
> continuously and my workaround for having admin menus handy but not
> disturbing the website have been leading me in various directions. A
> second issue for me since is that I do not like so much to be limited to
> the standart Bootstrap way how horizontal menus fold away on small screens.
> 
> To cut a long story short, I am a big fan of offcanvas sidebar menus and
> fixed-to-top metanavigation and for all websites I take care of, I
> started to implement that.
> 
> The linked file below shows about how I'd like to see a standart Tiki,
> respectively how I usually configure a Tiki straight after a fresh
> installation or how I rearrange an existing Tiki.
> 
> Please do not focus on the theme of the displayed site - it is just a
> plain raw theme of an association's local group with a more old style
> design adopted to Bootstrap 3 years ago.
> The site was published around pre-9, then upgraded 12->14->15->18.
> 
> You see some tiny icons top right for login etc. and a horizontal topbar
> main navigation, that (both) moves to the offcanvas sidebar right on
> narrow screens, whilst the main application menu went to the offcanvas
> sidebar left and was rearranged to a more Wordpress type of sort order
> with wp'ish icons besides the level0 menu items.
> 
> Sure that I put a quickadmin (with nobox=y) above the main application menu.
> 
> After this was done, I worked a while on the site, installed mPDF, added
> next 1/2 year events and some H5P deonstration for the site owners and
> dd some tiny job on a wiki page.
> 
> I have to say, that I find the setup of the rearranged main application
> menu with quickadmin in the offcanvas sidebar quite comfortable.
> 
> Here the link:
> https://dev.tiki.org/dl1140
> 
> From my point of view the standart Tiki layout is a good bit too much
> toolkit alike, what is still good for some use cases, but for my usual
> use cases I always rework the layout. To arrange that what is presented
> in the file has become literally part of my installation process, whilst
> this status is the latest one developped last last week
> 
> I think, if we get a decent offcanvas sidebar left&right into Tiki, I
> could create a standart profile to share this kind of setup and to get
> this after the initial installation process in less than 5 minutes time.
> Now it is a pain to do all the steps manually.
> 
> Maybe we also could go another step forward and add an optional
> preference for an off-offcanvas sidebar left, which by default has the
> main application menu included (to be optionally switched to the wp'ish
> one) which stays continuously visible for selected groups like Admins
> and editors on wide screens and only collapses on narrow screens. Thus
> webmasters/administrators could freely use both offcanvas sidebars
> laft&right for navigation etc.. Right now I have the left one occupied
> for the admins and editors.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> I am looking forward to your feedback.
> 
> Torsten
> 
> 
> 
> 
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