Settings is missing tabs

#1

My Config Settings is missing tabs. I’m on version 5.2.1.

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In case it helps with diagnosis, here are the plugins currently installed.

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#2

What tabs are missing?

I’m not noticing anything different looking at TiddlyWiki.com

#3

I don’t think so. The “Settings” tab has no “sub tabs”. … It’s more like the “kitchensink” of the $:/ControlPanel. …

It contains those settings, that don’t have their own tabs, or don’t fit into other categories. IMO it should be renamed into “Miscellaneous”, which would already help

#4

Your understanding of English idioms is superb!

#5

@DesertDwarf perhaps you can look around and tell us the names of the tabs you think are missing.

  • Info > Advanced
  • Appearance > Toolbars
  • Appearance > Theme Tweaks

Have the most content in the control panel

There are also tabs behind the Info Button, and a lot under the sideBar More and buttons in Tools you may have being thinking about.

Some plugins introduce their own tabs, are you missing a plugin or two?

#6

I was following @Mohammad’s instructions here: Shiraz 2.4.6 — create stylish contents in Tiddlywiki (kookma.github.io).

In it, he wrote:

Shiraz plugin has a settings tab under $:/ControlPanel, Settings tab, Shiraz tab. It allows to customize the behaviour of Shiraz plugin.

But I couldn’t find it. I can see it in his TW, but not mine after installing Shiraz.

#7

Hi @DesertDwarf

You are right and this is a long discussion on GitHub! Unfortunately that Setting Tab is visible only if you have Installed the CodeMirror plugin. We had a lot of discussion with @jeremyruston to add that Setting tab into the core, so plugin developers can add their plugin sub-tabs under a central Setting tab in $:/ControlPanel (see [BUG] Settings tab and third party plugins · Issue #5520 · Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5 · GitHub)

Short answer for now:

  • Install the CodeMirror plugin, or
  • Use the sidebar More Tab, look for Shiraz or other plugin tab setting

As it seems there is no plan to address this issue in the core, I am planning to add this tab in future release of kookma plugins! It will add a small kB and will overwrite a shadow tiddler.

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#8

Ah! Thank you, kind sir, for the explanation as well as the current and future solutions.