Re: Background handling improvements

[volvoguy <volvoguy gmail com>]

On 9/7/05, Thomas Wood <thos gnome org> wrote:

> I've just finished improving the support for background categories by
> centralising the list of categories for all pages to use. The list of
> categories is now controlled in all places from the
> $background_config_array in includes/config.inc.php.

Excellent!

> I've also added support for SVG images, based on the patch from Henrik.

I haven't had a chance to look around much yet, so you may have
already done this, but it might be nice to have something like
"resolution independent" or "all resolutions" next to SVG for those
that don't have a clue what SVG is.

> There has been interest expressed for a larger preview on backgrounds,
> possibly scaled at around 640 pixels width. If possible, I'd like to
> actually create a pop-up preview window, so that previews don't link
> straight through to an image.
> 
> Any other comments on this, or any other background handling issues?

I'm not a big fan of popups, but they seem to work well for this
purpose. Those on gnome-looks.org are especially nice because if there
are several screenshots (preview images, whatever), there are
thumbnails for those as well in the popped up window. That way you
don't have to keep going to the original page to click on each
thumbnail individually.


That's my two cents. :o)


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Aaron

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