Minimal Theme

kepano · November 18, 2020, 5:59pm

Minimal 2.2.1 is available (updates to both theme and plugin).

This update fixes a few small bugs and adds a toggle for Focus Mode. Focus Mode hides the ribbon and pane icons when sidebars are closed. The actions are still available by hovering over that area.

ajgxyz · November 19, 2020, 12:29am

@kepano love the theme! Thanks so much for the effort you’ve put into this. It seems to be one of the most robust and full featured themes out there. Couple of suggestions / requests:

The text color in the status bar is pretty low contrast and quite hard to read
Would be nice to de-couple the interface font from the editor / preview font
I’d like to see checked items with strikethrough / greyed out

mano · November 19, 2020, 1:39am

This applies to the hider plugin. When I toggle off the app ribbon, I can still see the ribbon on the right side (when are panels on the right dock, and it is unhidden). It would be nice to be be able to toggle that off too, either with the same command or a different one. Thanks.

I see this behavior on the default theme.

kepano · November 19, 2020, 3:02am

@ajgxyz

I agree. I just updated this if you grab the most recent version of the theme.
As of 2.2 you can set preview/editor/mono fonts separately. To be clear you’re suggesting a fourth font setting for interface elements (e.g. sidebars, status bar, tooltips, etc)? This gets tricky as it relates to things like the graph, files and calendar plugin which can be placed in the sidebar… It would be fairly easy to add a setting that affects everything except the main workspace panels but beyond that it gets too granular IMO.
I think this is too small of a detail to be in the Settings. There are a lot of these small decisions throughout Minimal and I don’t think every one of them should be a user-controllable setting. For now this is the realm of custom CSS. Obsidian devs will soon be releasing a feature to have multiple CSS files which will allow you to retain customization of these smaller details.

@mano can you share a screenshot? I am not sure I understand what you mean.

mano · November 19, 2020, 11:02am

notice that the ribbon that would have been there on the left is gone (highlighted in yellow), while the ribbon on the right is still there (highlighted in orange).

This is on windows 10, obsidian version 0.9.15. I have enabled ‘hide app ribbon’

(there’s some text in the yellow highlight coming in from an app in the background. Please ignore that.)

kepano · November 20, 2020, 6:22am

Minimal 2.3 is out

Added support for Calendar plugin 1.3.1
Added new settings for reducing borders in sidebars (even more minimal!)

Hider 1.0.2 is also available fixing the issue with the right ribbon (cc @mano)

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mano · November 20, 2020, 11:01am

I see it. Thanks

kepano · November 22, 2020, 9:10pm

Minimal 2.4: System dark mode, “All White” style and new hotkeys

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What’s new?

A new option allows you to use the system setting for light vs. dark mode. On newer operating systems this allows you to automatically switch based on time of day, and match your other apps.
New “All white” style for light mode
New hotkey commands
- Switch between light and dark mode with a single hotkey
- Cycle between light mode styles
- Cycle between dark mode styles
- Toggle sidebar borders

Improvements

Graphs now extend to the top of the pane, to provide a more immersive experience
Better readability for the “True black” style, particularly popovers
Images in dark mode are set to reduced opacity, hover for full opacity

Small fixes and changes

Accent colors can now access the full range of hues
Border settings are now an on/off toggle

argentum · November 24, 2020, 2:06pm

Any pointers on how to make my tags not-transparent?

This is how they used to look:

This is how they look at the moment with my current colour-scheme:

The CSS I use to override my tags is here: Meta Post - Common CSS Hacks

Edit: Forgot to add what I tried so far:

commenting all instances of background-color: transparent in the theme
overriding that with e.g. .tag { background-color: var(--nord3)} in my tags.css

jtmusky · November 24, 2020, 5:51pm

Theme is incredible! Take my money!

In the edit mode, the line numbering is slight misaligned.

kepano · November 24, 2020, 6:23pm

This line should work .tag { background-color: var(--nord3)} just make sure it comes after the Minimal theme code. You’ll also want to add .cm-s-obsidian span.cm-hashtag for edit mode so:

.cm-s-obsidian span.cm-hashtag,
.tag { 
background-color: var(--nord3);
}

kepano · November 24, 2020, 6:26pm

Thanks, this will be fixed in the next release.

argentum · November 25, 2020, 9:31am

That, unfortunately, didn’t work. I did a little digging and checked the commits around the tag lines in the CSS and I found that it’s actually related to the specificity of the cm-hashtag-begin and cm-hashtag-end (see here). Adding the following lines in my tags css did the trick:

span.cm-hashtag.cm-hashtag-end,
span.cm-hashtag.cm-hashtag-begin {
  background-color:var(--nord1);
}

argentum · November 25, 2020, 1:13pm

@kepano I’m really liking the new plugin settings, and I’m almost ready to fully switch over. Is there any chance that we can toggle the tooltips in the quick switcher and other modals as part of the Hider plugin?

kepano · November 25, 2020, 5:41pm

Sorry I am not sure what you mean about tooltips in the quick switcher and modals. Can you share a screenshot?

Edit: Oh! do you mean the instructions? (Tooltips typically refer to pop ups you see on hover)

argentum · November 25, 2020, 6:23pm

Exactly! I also didn’t know how to name them . For me these two are stuff that I sometimes forget, and that sometimes helps when new features are added:

With the quick switcher ctrl + o:

When linking:

The command palette also has one, but (at least for now) I don’t find as useful.

ryanjamurphy · November 25, 2020, 9:45pm

@argentum FWIW, I’m also a fan of those instructions.

@kepano think of keeping them available as “cognitively minimal”?

kepano · November 27, 2020, 6:04am

Minimal Theme 2.4.1 and Hider Plugin 1.0.4 are now available.

Instructions have now moved into Hider so you can show or hide them
Fixes for 0.9.19, and styling for new metadata block
More future-proof code for Calendar thanks to liamcain
New icon style for links to Obsidian searches. If you use Obsidian URIs that start with obsidian://search the link will be considered an internal link and have a special search icon. See Obsidian documentation on how to format these links.

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