Add "edit text", "view vertical timeline", "view timeline", "view calander" to ribbon menu and command palette

[nsntiw]

What would you like to be added?

The buttons for "edit text", "view vertical timeline", "view timeline", "view calander" are currently limited to tab title bar, they should ideally be in the ribbon menu and command palette as well.

Why is this needed?

• I personally opted to hide the tab title bar, and I think an insignificant population of Obsidian users do also, in order to declutter the UI. If so, those buttons are currently inaccessible.
• In addition, having them in the command palette allows them to be placed on the sidebars enabling quick access to the timeline view without opening multiple tabs of the .mv file. (like how a lot of people opt to put graph view on the left sidebar)

[brimwats]

+1! I tried to make a markwhen from the example file and nothing happened, took me awhile of digging.

[brimwats]

I actually don't even seem to have it as a in the tab title bar!

[kochrt]

@Acylation Do you know how to do what they're talking about?

[Acylation]

@kochrt yeah I’ll handle this

Hi all and thanks for your engagements. We can add those actions to the command palette as well as the tab pane menu (shown by @brimwats) / tap more-options menu (like the design of kanban plugin). However, having them in the ribbon may also cause cluttered UI, as most of the plugins will only add one in it.

As a workaround, you can now switch to the default theme to reveal the buttons for changing mw file view types. Could you suggest some theme that hide the tab title bar for a debugging reference?

[living-creatures]

This is not necessarily an issue that some themes hide the tab title bar by default, it’s an issue that some users (like me) have already chosen to disable the tab title bar, and so when they install the Markwhen plugin, they don’t see the buttons required to use Markwhen correctly. And unless I’m missing something, there’s no documentation for the Obsidian plugin that indicates that the tab title bar is required to be enable in the Obsidian Appearance settings in order to use Markwhen.

Also, switching to the default theme does not automatically solve this issue because switching themes maintains your existing settings options. So, if someone had already chosen to disable the tab title bar, switching themes will maintain that option.

I’ve added a feature request to at minimum indicate in the documentation that the tab title bar option needs to be enabled to use Markwhen.