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ui viewport, custom statusbars and backdrops

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GodEater:

--- Quote from: fml2 on January 21, 2010, 06:17:49 AM ---And my general feeling is that the recently introduced features (custom UI, sbs) have unnecessarily complicated things. Before, nearly 100% of users understood how it works, now, I think, it's 20% at best. May be this is because it's not clearly documented.

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Heartily agreed.

JdGordon:
I agree as well, but when I tried to get support for removing the settings I was pretty angrily shot down on the ml, this is the compromise solution. And yes, better documenting how the theme works together is something I've been wanting to do.

edit: well, adding those features didnt complicate thing unnessecarily. they complicated things because people are afraid of removing the simpler options.

AlexP:
All IMO: 

Themeing has got to the point where it is no longer a mish-mash of different settings (i.e. choose a backdrop, choose a wps etc) - it needs to be a coherent whole.  You download a theme that sets everything up, or you create one.  Everything is controlled from the theme.  The current state is just hugely confusing and unmaintainable.

JdGordon:
AH bugger... I cant find the mailing list thread, but I agree 100% with Alex but have since given up trying to get rid of the various themeing settings and just made them work.

yes, we have the theme site which means its dead simple for a theme to be just a single .cfg (what it should be), which simplifies things for everyone, except those which don't want anything more fancy (and I accept that view also).

Actually, from a users POV I think the single most confusing thing is how the sbs %Vi user area viewport interacts with the "ui viewport" config setting (which by the way is a .cfg only setting, i.e no UI to change it). it confuses me every time and I know how it works, so how is a user supposed to understand it?

karashata:
I have to agree that the options as they are discribed are quite confusing... I just need a little more clarification on option 2... Would that mean that a WPS would no longer display its own backdrop if it disables the status bar (say in favour of always displaying the information that may also be displayed in the custom status bar in the rest of the UI)..? Or would it even display its own backdrop at all anymore, instead using whatever backdrop the rest of the UI uses (which I'm assuming would be defined in the theme's config file)..?

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