On a community I’ve enabled the sidebar and adjusted the panel view like that: [image] I’d always like to use that panel menu and not switch between panel and sidebar depending on view-width. Is there a simple declaration to achieve that?

Right now, it is not easily configurable via SiteSetting. Behavior is controller by NarrowDesktop app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/lib/narrow-desktop.js 787655e27 let narrowDesktopForced = false; const NarrowDesktop = { narrowDesktopView: false, init() { this.narrowDesktopView = narrowDesktopForced || this.isNarrowDesktopView(document.body.getBoundingClientRect().width); }, isNarrowDesktopView(width) { return width true; } }

Thank you Kris!! :sunny: I wrapped it in a theme component and so far seems to work like a charm :sparkles: https://github.com/nolosb/discourse-sidebar-menu-panel Will play around and test it a bit more still..

So I love how this works for full-page layouts, offering a generous sidebar menu without breaking the layout: Unfortunately I realized it also changes the user-menu to always slide-in. That’s not such a good experience. I guess it will get more complicated to de-couple the behavior? As a side-note, I saw that the user menu panel has the classes: .user-menu.revamped.menu-panel.slide-in But the sidebar menu panel only has the classes: .revamped.menu-panel.slide-in I think it could be helpful to have a dedicated class .sidebar-menu there as well.

How to always show sidebar as menu panel?

Development

manuel (Manuel Kostka) December 14, 2022, 1:26pm 4

Thank you Kris!!

I wrapped it in a theme component and so far seems to work like a charm

https://github.com/nolosb/discourse-sidebar-menu-panel

Will play around and test it a bit more still..

Topic		Replies	Views
Switch the new sidebar from left to right side (english forum) Feature sidebar	31	3437	January 15, 2025
Topic list sidebar navigation Theme component	5	10239	September 14, 2022
How do you force keep open the sidebar? Product Support sidebar	13	570	February 20, 2026
Can't change desktop category page style in settings Product Support	10	671	February 12, 2024
Sidebar on the Homepage and desktop only Product Support	1	757	January 7, 2018

How to always show sidebar as menu panel?

Related topics