Why did you go to the sphinx-book-theme instead of the pydata-sphinx-theme ?

[12rambau]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

Let's face it, it's not a problem per se, I really liked the new documentation and the recent logo revamp.

I think xarray is a big lib and has thus a very dense documentation (many pages, many API entries etc). This is exactly why the pydata-sphinx-theme has been designed for. Using the top navigation top bar you can facilitate reading within the documentation by reducing the burden on the primary sidebar. At first I though you went full on executable book which would require to use the sphinx-book-theme but as you are still relying on .rst files and pure sphinx, changing theme is still an option.

Was it already discussed somewhere or is the door still open for modifications ?

Describe the solution you'd like

Slightly change the documentation conf.py to rely on the pydata-sphinx-theme.

Additional context

full disclaimer, I'm a maintainer of the pydata-sphinx-theme (that lives in the very same organization).

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[dcherian]

This seems like a good idea, and a good way to move tutorial.xarray.dev over to the main docs site.