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[Felix <felix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maximum Content Width:

I'm working on a 24" screen and I was thinking that it would be nice to 
have a setting or a minimalistic slider over the editor to define the 
maximum displayed content width. (see attachment: 
zim_content_width_option_and_margins.jpg)
Otherwise you will have very long lines in fullscreen. I know one can 
resize the window to the desired size but that reveals the "chaos" of 
other Apps/Desktop below, which I often like to avoid by entering apps 
in fullscreen. I also know one can use F11 (Dstraction Free..) but that 
is no real option for me either, because it takes me too far away from 
all other stuff that I have running. I find each app should be in a 
window (no matter if they are in fullsreen or not) or at least that's 
how I like it the most. Also don't forget that you have to hit F11 two 
times, one time for entering and one time for leaving the mode. While in 
F11-mode you loose some native window functionality, like moving it via 
shortcut and the menus tend to hide in F11-mode as well. I don't think 
the F11-mode is for the desired purpose.

Editor Margins:

Another feature that I think would be great is a setting to define 
margins for the editor. (see: zim_content_width_option_and_margins.jpg).
I couldn't find any config for that purpose, so I always put an empty 
line on top of the page to move the content away from the top-border in 
order to make the page look less confined. The empty line ends up to be 
inside the content. It shouldn't be there.

Colored Index Tree:

The more pages I have in Zim and the bigger the Index Tree gets the more 
difficult I find it to keep track of the hierarchy and categories within 
the Index Tree. I think it would be a good idea to add some visual 
assistance to it, like some colors (see: zim_tree_with_color.jpg).


What do you think? :)

Regards,

Felix

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