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Reintroduce maximum width of inner content #5050
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See #4371 (comment) |
This does not answer the comments above and neither does this address the comments from here. |
I cannot leave this uncommented as #4371 (comment) IMHO is not a valid reason for the decision made. |
Maybe the best of both worlds combined by giving the user the choice to resize the content area? Bildschirmaufnahme.2022-08-06.um.13.51.23.mov(this is just a POC, real implementation would have to look different) |
I like the resizable content area and the fact, that it's a quickly adjustable user-specific width. But that would probably cause issues with mobile devices. You then need to store the width client-side (local or session storage) etc.. |
@ausi expanding on that, we could even make the left column resizable (as seen in your example it might be benefitial to have more space there depending on the menu items in individual Contao instances - especially ones with
That's not an issue though. |
The best thing I would find is a per user option to turn on fullwidth and otherwise set a max-width of say 1440px. |
Affected version(s)
5.0-RC1
Description
Using the Contao BE full screen on a large monitor unfortunately got very cumbersome to work with:
waytoowide.webm
Especially if you use multiple tabs in a browser window, resizing the browser window each time for one tab is not practical. I did not find any other web application that I'm using to behave this way.
As long as our back end is structured like it is now (namely: not making use of the horizontal space), I'd like to vote for reintroducing a fixed maximum width. This does not do any harm for smaller viewports but improves the usability for bigger ones.
Here are some references:
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