It would be nice if there would be a sidebar region. I hacked seven becasue it doesnt have that neither.

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ANDiTKO’s picture

Hi, not a bad idea!
What kind of content you need to be displayed in a sidebar?

marcoka’s picture

i would say just the region is enough. i mean you could playe all kinds of stuff there with context or the block interface.
for example an additional admin menu. or in my case i have a block that does some suggestions for text while you write an article.

Sohal Khatwani’s picture

I agree. Would be great to have.

Dean Clayton’s picture

I can see the benefit of having a side bar might be useful ( I'm thinking potential for specific menu's or for specific blocks you might want to see on the admin side (latest edits, recent content, messages between admins).
That said, I've tended to use a combination of the Workbench and Display suite modules to assist content editors.
Using DS to structure the content edit forms into multiple columns is awesome.

marcoka’s picture

not everybody wants to use DS for everything. i hade huge problems with DS. haveing flexible regions is always good and have no disadvantage. i hate that most admin themes do not have sidebars.

ANDiTKO’s picture

I will do the side bars. But later. First i need to fix all the bugs and push the next stable release.

After that, adding sidebars is in my to-do list. I must also plan what will be the width of the sidebar. Will i use %, pixels or "em" units for the width. And i must plan the responsive breaking points.

Expect sidebars in the development release after i test and release the next stable version of Adminimal Theme.

radj’s picture

There is actually a sidebar but it only appears in SITE/admin/dashboard. If you configure a block individually by clicking "configure" in the Blocks list, you will see a couple of Dashboard options in "Adminimal (administration theme)". If you set a couple of blocks to "Dashboard (sidebar)", they will disappear in the Blocks list but they will appear when you visit the Dashboard.

ANDiTKO’s picture

Version: 7.x-1.3 » 7.x-1.x-dev
Assigned: Unassigned » ANDiTKO
Priority: Normal » Major

Im making this higher priority.

marcoka’s picture

this theme is so great why not add the standard regions that a frontend theme has too. it then could be used as frontend too.

ANDiTKO’s picture

@marcoka well only few people will use is as a frontend theme. Making it as a frontend theme would require more developing time. And also more code. So when you are using it as admin theme you would also load the "frontend" code. We could save those few bytes. And that's important if you are visiting the site on your mobile phone and using data plan to access the internet. It would be waste of time and this would open a whole lot of new issues and bug reports into the issue queue.

Most of the drupal sites are high budget and they already have a PSD design that the programmers must make into their own drupal theme.

So yea... i will be adding side bars, but it will be for the backed.
Adminimal Theme could be done in a fronted theme framework like zen,omega,bootstrap in few days. But this must be a separate project.

marcoka’s picture

yea thats right. but it could be subtehemed i guess

ANDiTKO’s picture

I have added the sidebar feature on my dev server. Im gonna make some tests and i will ship this feature with the next development release.

Here is a real screenshot i just took.

marcoka’s picture

nice. that theme was already great before. but now it is the best out there :)

commonpike’s picture

Great!

Can one configure (there you go ...) on which urls the sidebars appear ?
I want sidebars, but only on a few specific pages (more or less like they already existed for the dashboard. the civicrm module has its own dashboard, and i'd like to have the same sidebars active there)

curious!
*-pike

ANDiTKO’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

@commonpike The sidebars will appear on demand depending on your block display configuration.

Thanks to all who participated, this feature is now implemented to the latest dev version.

marcoka’s picture

thx very much. theme awesomeness++;