9 Commentsto If anyone has time could someone make tutorials for panels, sidebars and stop points please?

1. Anonymous says:

   December 23, 2013 at 4:37 am

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   There’s a sidebar?

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2. Anonymous says:

   December 29, 2013 at 6:18 pm

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   I’ve seen video tutorials about vertical/horizontal pinning of elements and sidebars, but nothing on adding a sidebar to the desktop, I would love to know how to do this.

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3. Anonymous says:

   January 3, 2014 at 12:42 am

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   There are a couple of ways to do sidebars. One is with folders, like here (https://plus.google.com/112252356715774925798/posts/65eLzJ22YQD). The other is by using the edges of your screens on either side, like the recent tutorial post from Chris Chastain shows. If there are other ways, I don’t yet know about them.

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4. Anonymous says:

   January 3, 2014 at 1:21 am

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   Thanks for your answer. Using folders seems easy enough, but how do you place the opaque blocks that act like drawers at the edge of the screen? Are they folder icons that are stretched to the desired shape and shaded? Or are they shapes created with uccw that are then placed at the screen edges to be populated with the sidebar elements?

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5. Anonymous says:

   January 3, 2014 at 6:47 am

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   No need for UCCW, or indeed anything but vanilla LL. The folder’s icon is irrelevant (unless you want to use it as the sidebar trigger), and the folder text is only relevant insofar as it will be used to reference which folder to open as the sidebar in response to some trigger action.

   
   

   
   

   The open folder (not the folder’s icon) should first be positioned and sized correctly to act as a sidebar. Perhaps the animation should be changed to a more sidebar like behaviour, like sliding in and out. Then some trigger mechanism should be set up. By default a folder’s icon acts as its open trigger, and setting up more complex trigger can quickly become tricky. In an item’s customization screen, going to + then choosing various gestures allow triggers to be applied to that item. In Pierre’s video, he’s using the general LL settings to trigger folder opening / sidebar revealing with two finger scroll gesture.

   
   

   
   

   Check out some of the tutorial videos. They should help.

   
   

   
   

   I know this launcher is complicated, and documentation is not quite stellar, but it’s worth it.

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6. Anonymous says:

   January 3, 2014 at 9:13 am

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   Thank you for your answer I appreciate you taking the time to help me, but I think you misunderstood me. My lack of proper “LL” terminology may be the blame. I was able to recreate the sidebars using the folders and icon trigger/gesture method. What I am unsure of how to create are the sidebars that are off to the side of the current desktop that come into view when swiping/sliding to another screen. These sidebars can be seen if you zoomed out. The specific area of confusion is how to place the sidebar shapes, since these are not folders but actual elements I’m not sure what’s used to place them. Thanks again for your help.

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7. Anonymous says:

   January 3, 2014 at 10:26 am

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   Ah, okay. The terminology is sadly inconsistent. Usually, the term “desktop” refers to the (theoretically) infinite area, which is subdivided into display sized “pages” (I also call them “screens” sometimes, even though that isn’t standard).

   
   

   
   

   The other sidebar method (non-folder) is the one I prefer. I first set “fit desktop to items”, “disable diagonal scrolling” and switch “overscroll” to disabled. Then I simply add breakpoints with “stop scroll”, “stop drag”, and “snapping”. Together with strategic use of horizontal “pin mode”, this can create a very nice effect.

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8. Anonymous says:

   January 3, 2014 at 8:15 pm

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   Nice, that clears a lot of things up. There is a video in this section that explains horizontal and vertical pinning, in the video there are slightly transparent rectangles that are being pinned. My assumption is that these rectangles are used for the background for the items that will be in sidebar. What I’d like to know is what those rectangles are, and how do I place them. My initial thought was that it is a folder icon that has been resized and shaded. Any thoughts?

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9. Anonymous says:

   January 24, 2014 at 4:31 am

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   I would like to add not just tutorial but a good text description on their overall usage and application

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