Sections for category settings?

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The discussion revolves around organizing category settings, which currently have over 20 options. awesomerobot proposes breaking these settings into groups for easier scanning and navigation, providing a visual example of the existing and grouped settings. codinghorror agrees that the current system is a “disaster” and welcomes any cleanup efforts. awesomerobot updates the changes, including normalizing input widths, and codinghorror expresses gratitude for the improvements.

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We have at least 20 settings in an individual category at this point, and I’ve found myself searching for lesser-used settings by reading the entire list.

Should we break these settings up into groups? This makes for easier scanning (if you know you’re not looking for an email setting, skip the email section) and also provides some guideposts (e.g., “Subcategory display settings are in category settings under appearance”).

A quick first pass, for example (these are tall screenshots, click to expand):

Existing settings

settings-today
settings-today1080×2580 297 KB

Grouped

settings-grouped
settings-grouped1080×3152 306 KB

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God yes this whole area is a disaster at the moment, so any kind of superfund cleanup site emergency triage we could do would be excellent :hospital: :face_with_medical_mask:

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I merged some changes in last night. Plugins need to carry their own headers when adding settings, so I’ll update our official ones today/tomorrow.

I also normalized the widths of inputs/labels because while it’s not necessary to have all that space for some of them, it should be faster to read without drastically varying widths.

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:bowing_man: thank you so much for this @awesomerobot!

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