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ui viewport, custom statusbars and backdrops

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JdGordon:
rereading the options and yeah, I could have made them more confusing if I tried, but not much more :p

The situation is thus:
a theme has a .sbs which specifies a backdrop (s.bmp), a setting which species the backdrop (t.bmp) and a wps which specifies w.bmp.

Option 1) outside of the wps t.bmp will be shown. In the wps w.bmp will always be shown.
Option 2) same as 1 except plugins will have no backdrop (almost the same as svn).
Option 3) same as 1 except s.bmp instead of t.bmp
Option 4) in plugins, t.bmp is shown, in the wps w.bmp is shown, s.bmp is shown anytime the sbs is enabled.

karashata:
Ah, that helps... I would say option 2 would work fairly well for most people, option 3 though may be a little bit better a fit for those people that make .sbs screens that require elements drawn on the backdrop to look right, and the backdrop would therefore look bad with the .sbs disabled... Kinda like my themes, come to think of it...

JdGordon:
option 3 takes control away from the user somewhat though. They might not like your backdrop at all and come up with one that does work and looks better. it sounds like option 4 is more what you are after, but thats one I'm pretty confident will not be done ever.

Llorean:
If they come up with one that they like better (which more or less generally requires the use of the PC unless they're very determined) wouldn't they then just alter the theme to use it, rather than using the setting?

JdGordon:
they'd go into the file browser and change the backdrop from there, and then wonder why the heck its not taking preference with #3.

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