The big UI/UX topic

How do you guys view your existing page when you are inside the editor?
I currently miss a dedicated option or shortcut to do that.

There are options/workarounds, but I found them very inconvenient.
But maybe I am missing something very obvious (please tell me if that’s the case).

Something like this would be very useful:

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Something to reach with 1 or 2 clicks without the necessity to navigate back from any options panel then.

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Hi @Marius,

I do not use the full screen view and have a item added to the admin bar to view the current post/page in the new tab.

Notice the View Live Page. But this won’t be visible with full screen view. An icon for view page in new tab as you suggested will be convenient. You can also write a javascript bookmarklet which extracts the post id from the current url and open in new tab with site.com/?p=postid.

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Thanks for this suggestion @anon32808828 :+1:

I will try it out but can’t imagine to sacrifice that space on a 1920x1080 device.
In addition, I like to work in an isolated environment without all these distractions, which includes the admin sidebar as well, which kind of interferes with the quick block inserter (which you can’t move to the right).

I’m missing the heading block, could this be added?
Have checked a few blocks and seems to be general.

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Hello @Marius,

Looking back at this and @jornes’s reply, might I ask if the current implementation of folders is not what is/was expected?

Looking to see what is currently missing here.

Thanks

Hey @Louis.

I wrote this post 2 weeks before the folders has been introduced.
Unfortunately, I didn’t test the feature extensively yet, so I’m not able to give any valuable feedback.

I think @jornes’ reply was referring to a different post.

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Hi @Marius,

Thanks for the precisions.

Indeed, my response is ambiguous. Global classes/Stylesheets folders were introduced later that month, but external classes have had a folder type categorisation since their introduction, which is why I wondered what wasn’t working out for you with this particular setup/your expectations.

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Oh, I see @Louis.

Wasn’t aware of it, so apparently it existed then already - at least partially.
Sorry for the confusion, I think I checked the external classes’ tab as well, but seems like I must have missed it.
If nothing changed in the meantime, I have to ask myself how that could happen :see_no_evil:

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@Marius Correct! I was.

Block Inspector > Design > Pseudo Classes
The Pseudo Classes Dropdown Menu is missing here.

It’s necessary to select the pseudo state before entering the pseudo classes tab

Not sure if there is a specific reason why is that.
It’s possible to switch pseudo states from the header toolbar, but it’s not that convenient and a kind of inconsistent experience.
Also missing inside the Relative Styling tab, which got me confused as well a couple of times. I think it makes sense here as well.

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Thanks for bringing this up @Marius.
There were specifics for not introducing the pseudo selector in those tabs, but after looking at this again, they are outweighed by the need to set pseudo content etc…

Fixed in 1.2.8.5.

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Bricks screenshot is of older version. Newer version have a bit webflow like controls

Don’t know if it will double post, for some reason it disappeared 1st time.

Yes you are right, I was trying to find it and couldn’t, I dont have it installed yet I own it.
Their new version actually made me try to find it then I thought maybe it was Breakdance… Thanks for pointing it out.

Yeah, a top-right-bottom-left order would be something I would appreciate at some point.
With the current implementation, that wouldn’t make sense.

The webflow-ish one, I really like - very efficient.
Doesn’t Zion has that too? I think I’ve also seen something like that in the oxy 4 beta if I remember correctly.

The current implementation is kind of unified, which I also like (and got used to it), tbh.

Any update on drag and drop?

Any update regarding the removal of the Relative Style shortcut?
I’m also missing options like disable and delete them directly from the main class area, maybe even for edit the rules.
For instance, the virtual classes already comes with a context menu.

A duplication option for RS items is something I really would like to see at some point to complement the already existing copy option, which could also find their way in a potential context menu for quick access.

Hi,
I noticed, that when the cwicly block inspector/editor is long enough to start scrolling the scrollbar will use up space, which activates the horizontal scrollbar. This is not that important but it would be nice if the block inspector would get more space or the padding to the left/right could be shrunk to fit the vertical scrollbar.

… well this is whining at a high level :yum:

Edit: After all that whining I forgot to say that you guys from the cwicly team are doing an awesome job! Love how cwicly grows :blush:

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I find it surprising that no one brought this up until now @T-low :grinning:

I’d rather disagree here.
That’s a perfect fit for this thread :+1:

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