Its my belief that Minima v3 is almost ready for release. But before it is actually finalized with a soft feature-lock, I would like to get some feedback from the community.
For those not actively following the Minima v3 developments, listed below are some highlights:
The base layout is now base.html instead of default.html.
Theme-specific config keys date_format, show_excerpts, header_pages from v2.5 are now under the minima namespace: minima:date_format, minima:show_excerpts, minima:nav_pages respectively.
New in v3 are skins that are variations of the color-schemes of the theme. A skin may be opted into by the site owner before building the site via config key minima:skin.
Social platform icons are now rendered using Font Awesome Free webfont via their remote CDN. They are configured via a list under minima:social_links.
Various Sass partials as hooks to ease customizing the theme.
Sticky header
Mobile navigation styled into a full-height drawer easeing into the viewport from the right.
Other miscellaneous style changes.
You may preview the theme either via https://jekyll.github.io/minima or consuming the theme in a dummy site directly from the repository either via the jekyll-remote-theme plugin or via the Gemfile directly.
looks good - only thing I see is it doesn’t look like you can close the drawer once you open it? unless you click the one link (or logo). I also think it opens a little slow.
That was testing on a desktop using the dev tools device emulator thing though.
Thank you for checking it out, @rdyar
Regarding the drawer, the hamburger icon is actually a toggle — Opens it as well as closes the drawer if it’s open.
I’ll see if I can swap out the icon to make it more intuitive.
Update: The icons now toggle between the hamburger and an X based on the trigger state.
I personally feel that it’s totally unnecessary and is making the navigation experience much worse.
Taking into account that many site builders supposedly don’t have a lot of links in navigation bar (don’t have a specific data to back this up, but all the Minima websites I’ve seen didn’t have more than 4 elements there) and as with this new approach it opens for a full height of the screen - the result is that for majority of the users most of this drawer area is just empty after this update and also covering almost half the screen every time you open the menu, which doesn’t make much sense.
Want to see if anybody else feels like it or it’s just me.
But apart from that, thx for working and improving Minima!
