By popular demand (meaning I want it, and someone else wants it) I have implemented the ability to “pin” the sidebar making it a permanent fixture while pinned. This is an opt-in feature, if someone wants it they can check the tickbox under controls and if they want to return to default behavior they can simply uncheck the box. It works great on wide screens where there is already plenty of whitespace.
Pinning does 3 things:
- causes the sidebar to be always extended and undismissable
- disables darkness so the text can be interacted with while the sidebar is extended
- causes the sidebar to shunt the text to the right instead of overlaying it
Please note: A while back I implemented code so google analytics can track how users use the sidebar features. It makes it somewhat possible to observe how people interact with the sidebar and controls.