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jimberry

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Re: Plain 2.0 testing
Posted: 25 Oct 23, 12:27

in response to: Laza

Laza wrote:
No, I'll remove the variants from the final release. It was left because it was used for development.

JeffTucker

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Registered: 31-Jan-2006

Re: Plain 2.0 testing
Posted: 25 Oct 23, 14:09

in response to: Laza

Laza wrote:
Yes, good idea. It [audio clips] won't complicate the skin.

I agree. I wouldn't even put a checkbox for it in the UI - if an image has an attached audio clip, use it. Audio clips can't get there by accident, or be being added by some other app.

The thing to think about is, "When a new user opens the settings for the first time, will he be scared off? Will he immediately think, 'Oh, my god, I have to learn coding to use this!!!'"

That's the problem with things that add flexibility, but at the cost of simplicity. Things like code-laden caption templates or a forest of metadata options in a fiddly-to-edit box are fine for an experienced user, but they scare the horses.

JeffTucker

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Re: Plain 2.0 testing
Posted: 26 Oct 23, 14:40

in response to: Laza

Laza wrote:
Beta 3

Takes care of most of the things on my list. The variants are still there.

Audio clip support hasn't been added yet, but that requires a little thinking about where to plant the audio control bar. Lots of choices there. In my skins, I usually plant the bar in the caption, like these:

https://jefftucker.net/saturn/audioclips/

But for background music, I usually hide it under a "musical note" icon that fades out after a few seconds:

https://jefftucker.net/neptune/light/

Or it could be always visible, but in one corner of the lightbox display.

I could argue for or against any of those choices.

(That reminds me, I need to cut that godawful Chrome audio control bar down to size - you can just hit it with simple CSS to take the height down, though messing with the width is a minefield, and you have to be careful about Firefox, whose bar is very different.)

JeffTucker

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Registered: 31-Jan-2006

Re: Plain 2.0 testing
Posted: 26 Oct 23, 16:40

in response to: JeffTucker

Plain 2.0 has been released, so I'll lock this thread. If there's anything you don't like, start a new thread!

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