Neatly solves the laptop real estate problem

  • Working with WordPress on a 13″ Framework notebook as I do when writing for Tested Technology, it’s practically mandatory to set the screen options to single column to make the most of the limited screen real estate.

    But if you do this, the control buttons you need (occasionally) to Publish or Update, or (very often) to review the Preview are no longer to hand in the second column and are generally out of reach most of the time.

    This strikes me as a design shortcoming in WordPress and one I’ve sought to solve through a variety of approaches over the course of more than a year. FibroJedi’s plug-in is the fix I was looking for.

    I run it with 10% opacity, 70% from the top so that it’s always handy but not in the way. Ideally, I’d like to be able to make its dialogue box smaller and place it with a little more granularity. But as it stands it’s changed the way I work with WordPress. I’m very grateful.

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    Chris

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  • Plugin Author Fibro Jedi

    (@fibrojedi)

    Hey,

    Thank you for this feedback. In terms of your ideas, are you meaning just to make the tab itself narrower and the buttons smaller (have, like a “compact” option?).

    And what kind of positioning would help you more?

    By chance I was doing an update today, so I’m glad I saw this.
    Thanks again,

    FJ

    Thread Starter bidmead

    (@bidmead)

    The size of the FJ dialogue box, of course, varies with the zoom factor of the browser. I could probably juggle with the font size and zoom to make the box smaller (yes, a “compact” version, about half the current dimensions) but that might mess with other aspects of my editing.

    This really is no big deal. Neither is the positioning issue. (My inclination would be to move it down until it’s just a few pixels above the bottom of the screen. Ideally, this placement would be something the user could do with the mouse cursor, with the position remaining sticky between sessions.)

    One other—again very minor—point: the Sliding Effect is described as only applying to “screens/resolutions >=1200px wide”. This led me to suspect that it was dependent on the 2256×1504 screen resolution I’m using for Ubuntu on this Framework laptop. In fact, it appears to depend on the current zoom factor of my Vivaldi browser. Set to the 125% I use as standard, the Sliding Effect is non-functional. At 100% zoom it works nicely. It would be good to be able to slide at whatever zoom factor I choose.

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    Chris

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