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sandbox/htmlize: remove preferences tab

Open elear opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

Describe the issue

There are two problems with the preference tab in the right frame:

  1. Preferences shouldn't be in a tab. Nearly the entire world has settled on an icon in the upper right hand corner for preferences.
  2. They're showing preferences that probably shouldn't be preferences. Which tab is the default indicates perhaps that we haven't concluded what the right tab is. We should do that. Also, htmlize text versus plaintextify html raises the same question. I suspect that ties to whether we have a good HTML diff mechanism.

Code of Conduct

elear avatar Sep 23 '22 06:09 elear

On (1), would you then show the prefs with a modal?

On (2), I'd love to pick one choice for everything, but past feedback was such that everyone wanted something different.

larseggert avatar Sep 23 '22 09:09 larseggert

On (1) you have to render these things slightly differently on different media. There are plenty of real life examples, not least of which is the one I'm typing into now and you are reading this on. On (2) stop asking. If you have a parkable frame with tabs, which one is the default matters a lot less.

elear avatar Sep 23 '22 09:09 elear

As an aside, I find it entertaining that I can check the "agree to the code of conduct" box, submit, and then unclick the box.

elear avatar Sep 23 '22 09:09 elear

I haven't heard other feedback on this, so I am inclined to not make changes.

larseggert avatar Dec 12 '22 17:12 larseggert

Do you have any positive feedback about this aspect?

elear avatar Dec 12 '22 17:12 elear

I have no other feedback. Going to close.

larseggert avatar Jan 11 '23 13:01 larseggert