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Show larger images on themes pages
Speaking from experience, working with images in Elgg is a bit of a torture. We will need an API for managing uploads, storing them in the filestore, rendering them client side. For every image or icon, we now have to take the following steps:
- Create a file input that can handle single or multiple file uploads of type image
- Handle uploads (have to copy/paste every time), filter out non-image files
- Figure out where to store these images on the filestore (I always forget and have too look in the upload action to remember the structure that was used)
- Write a custom page handler
- Write a hook to replace the entity icon url
Not to mention all the trouble with hard-coded icon sizes, global sizes config that can not be filtered via hooks, no image manipulation library etc.
Additionally, I do not think that picture-centric is necessary pretty. Content intensive sites might not care as much about images, and vice-versa having a 200x200 avatar in a summary view that has no description might look ugly.
Man, agreed big time. Definitely need a better image solution.
Find the issue on elgg/elgg and let's continue discussing there
The purpose of themes, though, is the look. It should be really easy to tell if a theme has the look in going for. Best way to do that is with pictures.
I worked on community changes a while ago and this is one of my mock ups.
Besides the larger preview image content is seperated into description, support (comments) and gallery. Buttons moved to sidebar and list of releases as select dropdown.
I was thinking something more like the image is the full width of the main column.
Do you have thoughts about how this should look on mobile? On Apr 22, 2014 10:22 PM, "Per Jensen" [email protected] wrote:
I worked on community changes a while ago and this is one of my mock ups.
Besides the larger preview image content is seperated into description, support (comments) and gallery. Buttons moved to sidebar and list of releases as select dropdown.
[image: themes-profile]https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1220345/2773819/1591203c-caa7-11e3-8f8f-699f978f59ea.jpg
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