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Re: Explore Wikipedia's New Look

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Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

gpm wrote: post #63
nsajko wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Text width is important, but this is not a solution, zooming and changing browser window geometry is.

Mac OS (and some linux desktops) seems to really expect you to manage windows by having them always be full screen and swiping between desktops. Which makes changing browser window geometry sub-optimal. Even on desktops where it's reasonably easy, it's pretty annoying to have to resize the window when you go to different sites to get them to format properly.

It's not necessarily a function of the linux desktop. I use xfce, but it would be entirely easy to work with non-full-screen windows for my browser, emacs, clementine etc. However, I choose not, and use workspaces to spread things out.

Re: Explore Wikipedia's New Look

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Post by rchard2scout »

slimginz wrote: post #8

For people who don't like the new look, you can go to preferences->Appearance and select 'Vector (Legacy)'. It does require you to login first which is annoying but at least you can easily go back to the old look. Edit: You can also have it take up the entire width by hitting the button in the bottom right. Doesn't seem to remember the change for me though so hopefully they add that in soon.

IIRC, the button in the bottom right is intended to not remember the change. To make the full width setting persistent, when you're logged in, go to Preferences -> Appearance, and disable "Enable limited width mode".

Re: Explore Wikipedia's New Look

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Post by fsckboy »

karaterobot wrote: post #20

I don't need a header to follow me down the page, in fact I'd prefer it not to. On the very rare occasion when I need to scroll all the way to the top of the page, I have no problem figuring out how to do that. Feels like they're introducing a persistent UI element without a benefit. Benefit to me, anyway. Maybe they heard from a lot of users who were having trouble remembering where the header was, I can't say. I do…

> I don't need a header to follow me down the page, in fact I'd prefer it not to.

I also don't need a header following me, but that's not really what they're talking about. They've moved the "section header/outline"-table-of-contents-links from the top of the document (where they would scroll off the screen) over to the left side, so what follows you is not the old set of headers to other parts of wikipedia that you never clicked, but rather the in-document, titled, relative links up and down the current page.

it's actually pretty useful. (which does not mean I'm embracing what the designers have done; given the general track record of designers and all the spurious white space here, I must assume that this useful bit was only accidentally left in :)

Re: Explore Wikipedia's New Look

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Post by int_19h »

anthonypasq wrote: post #80
karaterobot wrote: post #20

I don't need a header to follow me down the page, in fact I'd prefer it not to. On the very rare occasion when I need to scroll all the way to the top of the page, I have no problem figuring out how to do that. Feels like they're introducing a persistent UI element without a benefit. Benefit to me, anyway. Maybe they heard from a lot of users who were having trouble remembering where the header was, I can't say. I do…

all these changes are geared at mobile. I imagine thats the majority of their traffic now

It is described specifically as "desktop improvements".
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