The sphinx-pydata-theme has great mobile support and lots of development energy behind it. I don't want to switch themes again based on a sidebar sizing concern. If the sidebar width is super important, we can adjust the CSS. The standard CSS has this, which I think is what we'd want to adjust. .container-xl { max-width: 1400px } Scott Kruger <[email protected]> writes:

Rather than have us edit the CSS, perhaps just getting people to agree to a different theme: https://sphinx-themes.org/

I think alabaster, aiohttp, cloud_sptheme, ... meet Barry's complaint.

There is a lot to like on the kotti_docs_theme for example although the bar is on the right instead of the left.

Scott

On 2021-04-26 08:58, Patrick Sanan did write:

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As far as I know (which isn't very far, with web stuff), changing things on that level requires somehow getting into CSS.

For instance, you can see what it looks like with other widths directly from Firefox (fun, didn't know you could do this): - go to the page - hit F12 - click around on the left to find the <div> that corresponds to the part you care about - look in the middle column to find the piece of CSS that's controlling things (here, something called .col-md-3) - edit the CSS - in attached screenshot I change the max width of that sidebar to 5%.

But, I want to avoid having to do things on the level of CSS and HTML - I think that should be done as a collective effort in maintaining the theme (and Sphinx itself). If we really care enough about the width of that sidebar, we'll create a fork of the theme, add a setting for it, and try to get it merged to the theme's release branch.

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Am 23.04.2021 um 23:12 schrieb Barry Smith <[email protected]>:

Thanks. Even if we just leave it is there a way to make it a little "skinnier", it seems very wide in my default browser.

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On Apr 23, 2021, at 1:08 PM, Patrick Sanan <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

It is possible to put things there, as in this link which is both documentation and example: https://pydata-sphinx-theme.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/sections.htm... <https://pydata-sphinx-theme.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/sections.html#the-left-sidebar>

Other projects using this theme have the mostly-empty left sidebar: https://numpy.org/doc/stable/ <https://numpy.org/doc/stable/> https://jupyter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ <https://jupyter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>

(They also have fancier landing pages, though, which we have been discussing).

It goes away on mobile devices or small windows, at least.

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Am 23.04.2021 um 19:21 schrieb Barry Smith <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:

There is a lot of empty space on the left side of the website pages; under the Search slot. Does this empty left side need to be so large, seems to waste a lot of the screen?

Barry

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