When the sidebar is closed (auto or manually) and I open the preferences, it uses the same sidebar as the widgets and I can’t navigate through the preferences as long as I don’t show the sidebar.
This is not obvious to a regular user.
Either the preferences are independent from the normal sidebar or it should at least automatically show up.
As the settings are displayed in the sidebar, they logically cannot be independent of the sidebar. The same applies to the widgets. If you hide the sidebar, you will not have access to the widgets. I actually can’t see any problem with this behavior.
On the left is the navigation (Spaces bar, Widgets bar), on the right is the content.
the problem to me is that it is not necessarily logical that the preferences navigation uses the same sidebar as the widgets.
this is a behaviour a user is not used to from any other application.
the preferences is a different context and should be navigable when I call them.
when the user hides the sidebar from the content it’s usually for concentration purposes or when presenting something.
