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Automatically open sidebar for current folder if the screen size allows it #7138
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This is something we talked about at the conference: If the screen width is above a certain value, we could automatically open the sidebar for the folder you are currently in.
That would help make the things we offer in the sidebar like comments and sharing more obvious and directly accessible.
The only question is what we do in the root folder. For the first iteration we could simply not show the sidebar. In the future we could show the activity tab and simply show all activity like in the Activity app. cc @nickvergessen
What do you think @nextcloud/designers?
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skjnldsv commentedon Nov 10, 2017
I completely agree! We have far too much empty space on big screens :)
jancborchardt commentedon Nov 10, 2017
How could we do it? I guess we need JS for it @nextcloud/javascript
nickvergessen commentedon Nov 10, 2017
Sorry, but please don't turn the files app into a portal/dashboard/whatever...
jancborchardt commentedon Nov 11, 2017
It's not about turning the Files app into anything, it's providing info where it's expected or useful.
As said above, as another solution, in the root folder we could also simply not show the sidebar.
Espina2 commentedon Nov 11, 2017
In the frontend you can do that with a flag. So you verify with javascript what is the window width, if is bigger than X set the flag to true.
And you will have something like that, if the flag is true onclick do this. That is something easy todo.
I am not really sure about showing the bar, it can look weird. Maybe we should do it first and take the decision after. @jancborchardt
blizzz commentedon Nov 11, 2017
Directory activities would recursively get the activities of their children? Sounds expensive, if not pre-generated.
jancborchardt commentedon Nov 12, 2017
@blizzz activity is a differnt discussion for now (can't find the issue). This is only about having the sidebar open, with the Sharing tab showing by default.
nickvergessen commentedon Nov 13, 2017
nextcloud/activity#45
danxuliu commentedon Nov 28, 2017
What would be the value (or values) to open the sidebar by default? This is similar to something planned for Nextcloud Talk, so it would be good to behave consistently (if it makes sense, of course).
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brasofilo commentedon Apr 21, 2020
Hi folks, the request was removed from Nextcloud 18 milestone and I'm not seeing it on 19 milestones either...
There's no workaround to have the sidebar permanently opened, is it?
skjnldsv commentedon Apr 22, 2020
Not yet, this is soon coming though.
Will be implemented slowly but surely in all the apps that supports it until all Nextcloud supports it :)
schnellschnell commentedon Jun 24, 2020
I have a project that needs the comment section always open in browsers. Is there a hack or an app or anything to begin with? I'd like to develop something that can be used by anybody later. I have some modest time and funding for that project. Have you tried something or is anybody interested?