Michael ([info]masterslacker) wrote in [info]s2smoothsailing,
@ 2005-07-20 20:22:00
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Request/Change Log
The following table lists requests made to fix bugs, to add new functionality, or to improve visual aspects of the Smooth Sailing layout. I will work on implementing them as soon as I can, but note that changes to do not take effect immediately. I have to pass my modifications onto the LiveJournal staff and it could take some time before the changes become live. With thanks, Mike.

Request Date Category Description Notes Date Coded Date Live
10/7/05 New Feature Add the capability to use the Friends Colours on the Friends Page This functionality was added into the Wizard and is off by default. Friends Colours can be turned on and used in the subject bar on the entries. 12/7/05 1/9/05
10/7/05 New Feature Add poster username to Month pages when different from the journal. This is for communities and shared journals. This bug was also reported on LJ's Bugzilla. Done. I also modified the comment count to not use English text. Instead of saying [ 3 Comments ] for example, it will now say [ +3 ]. 12/7/05 1/9/05
10/7/05 Bug Fix The property $*layout_sidebox_tags_alignment is not being used in the stylesheet. This bug was also reported on LJ's Bugzilla. Fixed 12/7/05 1/9/05
15/7/05 Visual Add a single space after the colon in the profile labels A space can be added to the default values of the labels in the Customisation Wizard. N/A N/A
18/7/05 New Feature Add a customisation to allow the Entry Tags and Metadata to be either all on one line, or each on a seperate line. Added the option in the Layout tab of the Customisation Wizard under the title "Metadata Arrangement" 20/7/05 1/9/05
21/7/05 Bug Fix Usericon in comments does not properly link to the allpics.bml page. Fixed. 21/7/05 1/9/05
17/7/05 Bug Fix Maintainers of Communities can't view IP addresses of posters because of a redundant logic check to viewer_is_owner which denies it. This bug was also reported on LJ's Bugzilla. Fixed. The redundant logic check was removed. 25/7/05 1/9/05
30/7/05 Bug Fix Multisearch sidebox form doesn't work when viewing a journal using the URL http://username.livejournal.com/ Fixed. I adjusted the form's action url to "$*SITEROOT/multisearch.bml" instead of just using "/multisearch.bml". 31/7/05 1/9/05
1/8/05 New Feature Implement the new Tags Page with usage counts which can be viewed at www.livejournal.com/users/username/tag/. Done. 1/8/05 1/9/05
3/8/05 Bug Fix The Private Free text box doesn't show the text entered into the Wizard. This bug is reported on LJ's Bugzilla. Fixed. The missing "print" statement was added. 3/8/05 1/9/05
3/8/05 Bug Fix "Stylesheet" is misspelt in the Wizard and appears as "Sytlesheet" for the Replacement Stylesheet URL. Fixed. 3/8/05 1/9/05

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[info]thehumangame
2005-07-21 10:49 pm UTC (link)
The link to allpics.bml from userpics in comments is broken. It currently links to http://www.livejournal.com/users/1101/c/allpics.bml?user=exampleusername. It seems to work everywhere else.

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[info]masterslacker
2005-07-22 02:44 am UTC (link)
Thank you for telling me. I've fixed it in my copy of the layout and will notify the LJ staff as soon as possible.

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[info]versaphile
2005-07-25 06:55 am UTC (link)
Ooo, friends colors! Excellent.

I'd like to request the fast-comment box to be added (where you can comment in the same page as you read), and also for userpic keywords to show up when you roll over a userpic.

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[info]masterslacker
2005-07-26 02:53 am UTC (link)
I'm sorry. I can't do either of those.

The quick reply box is javascript and I can't code that in. The LJ staff has to do it themselves. As far as I can tell, they are adding it in slowly to all the existing layouts, so at some point, it should be there, but I'll have no idea when.

As for the userpic keywords, I have no idea how to get them out of the S2 core, and don't think any layouts can show them. If you can point out a layout to me that gets it somehow, I'll look through the code and try to figure it out

Mike.

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[info]versaphile
2005-07-26 03:32 am UTC (link)
Try this, maybe?
http://www.livejournal.com/community/s2styles/254623.html

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[info]masterslacker
2005-07-30 10:04 pm UTC (link)
After looking through the capabilities of the S2 core, I discovered that I can add userpic keywords onto commenter userpics, but not on entry userics on recent or friends pages. I will ask the LJ staff to try to allow for that capability on entries as well, and if it does become available, I'd add userpic keywords into my layouts.

Mike.

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[info]versaphile
2005-07-31 02:09 am UTC (link)
Excellent! :-D

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[info]jenn1224
2005-07-30 12:31 pm UTC (link)
I have a paid account, so my journal is at jenn1224.livejournal.com in addition to the regular www.livejournal.com/users/jenn1224.

When I'm checking my journal at the usual URL, the multisearch works fine, but when I check my journal at jenn1224@livejournal.com (where I usually do), it doesn't work. The URL still includes jenn1224 when I try to search for something, and I get an error message.

Great layout, by the way.

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[info]masterslacker
2005-07-30 10:02 pm UTC (link)
Thank you for reporting this bug to me. I have corrected it in my layer and will report it to the LJ staff to correct in the public layer.

Thanks, Mike.

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[info]dragonelf_2002
2005-08-03 10:15 pm UTC (link)
This just a minor thing but when customizing your great style, I found out that Replacement Stylesheet URL is misspelled. What it says is Replacement Sytlesheet URL. And once again nice style you gave to us.

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[info]masterslacker
2005-08-04 02:56 am UTC (link)
Thank you for pointing that out to Me. Mike.

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[info]dragonelf_2002
2005-08-04 02:49 pm UTC (link)
No problems.

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[info]tabbymarie
2005-08-10 07:33 am UTC (link)
i have spaces in my tags, and the link is adding a + sign instead of the space, disabling the tag.

Is this a bug in the style or a user-error where the user simply shouldn't be adding spaces (although it definately works with spaces when you type it in.)

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[info]masterslacker
2005-08-10 05:00 pm UTC (link)
That is a LiveJournal system problem and not a layout-specific problem. They have fixed it, but the code hasn't gone live yet. It should be working again soon.

Mike.

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zonneschijn
2005-08-10 08:30 pm UTC (link)
I love this layout! :) One small suggestion: If you could add a small amount of space between the mood and the mood icon (and also between the subject and the subject icons when they're used in comments), that would rock. Thanks!

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[info]dragonelf_2002
2005-08-12 11:02 am UTC (link)
I think it would be neat if one when clicking on the permanent link to see just one single entry would have it appearing with the Smooth Sailing style instead of falling back to Live Journals default appearance. Because when it falls back to the default appearance it clashes with the rest of one's journal which is using your great style.

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[info]masterslacker
2005-08-12 05:45 pm UTC (link)
If you have a free account, then the single entry pages with all the comments will always appear in the default livejournal style. That is not specified by my layout but rather of the livejournal system.

If you have a paid account you can view those pages in my style, as well as have the option to return to the default livejournal style. That is an option in my layout.

I'm sorry but unless Livejournal changes their policies, you won't be able to view your entry pages in my style. Sorry.

Mike.

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[info]dragonelf_2002
2005-08-12 10:26 pm UTC (link)
Well, I had to try.

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[info]dragonelf_2002
2005-11-07 03:51 pm UTC (link)
Shouldn't the Friends page have the same width as the Recent Entries page have. If I hadn't customized it then I would have been forced to scroll my Friends-page sideways.

I have already tried removing my personal customizing and empty my cashe and I have done a proper reload insteed of just refreshing and still the Friends-page is wider than the Recent Entries page. I have looked at it in IE and Firefox and the Friends-page appears the same way in both browsers.

Is this a bug or something I can fix with CSS.

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[info]masterslacker
2005-11-07 10:46 pm UTC (link)
That's happening because some of the entries on your friends page have pictures in them which are very wide, and so it stretches out the page. It's not something to be "fixed" because it's the behaviour I wanted in the design of the layout.

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[info]dragonelf_2002
2005-11-09 08:37 am UTC (link)
Thank you for your reply.

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[info]murklinstest
2005-12-06 09:42 pm UTC (link)
Wasn't sure of the best place to leave this comment, but this seems as appropriate as any. I'd prefer to do this over email, so if you're amenable to that, my gmail account name is verymurklins.

My questions relate to the update you made to the Smooth Sailing code. My cohorts over at [info]s2flexisquares and I were hoping to submit some changes to Flexible Squares. We wondered how much time delay there was between your submission of the code patch and the code's actual implementation on the live server. We also wondered if you knew anything about any approval process a code update must undergo -- is it likely that some submitted changes will be rejected by lj developers and not get committed? Really, any information you have about this process would be most helpful!

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[info]masterslacker
2005-12-07 12:50 am UTC (link)
Hi there. Since I was the layout creator I think it was easy for me to push new code live for my layout. I'm not sure how easy it will be for you. I used to post code to LJ's Zilla database, but that appears to be down right now, so I was told to direct you to the Support Area and get you to enter the information through there.

Go to http://www.livejournal.com/support/submit.bml and enter as much information as you think may be possible. Since I've never done it through this method I don't know what to tell you to say, but try to be as detailed as possible about what you're trying to accomplish.

Hope it works out ok, and sorry I couldn't be of more help,

Mike.

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[info]murklinstest
2005-12-07 01:04 am UTC (link)
Thanks so much for the response! I'm not too worried about not being the layout creator -- if worse comes to worst, I can prod [info]cyrnelle, but she's just really busy. Thanks for the advice.

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[info]masterslacker
2005-12-07 01:07 am UTC (link)
I just spoke to [info]jproulx over Yahoo IM and he said you can directly email him with layout changes and he'll take a look at them.

Mike.

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[info]murklinstest
2005-12-07 01:16 am UTC (link)
Oh, awesome! Thanks!

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[info]uniquewonders
2006-10-31 11:25 pm UTC (link)
These new enhancements make it THE layout for Basic users. Congrats for making the PTB listen.

Anyway, could the - in the date/subject line be customizable? When you want to have the date and the subject on two different lines, that lonely - which is in front of the subject looks quite silly. :)

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[info]masterslacker
2006-11-01 04:18 am UTC (link)
I'll look into this to see if I can put that as a customisation somehow. I'm sure it could be done, it will just require a little tweaking with the code.

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[info]uniquewonders
2006-11-01 06:31 pm UTC (link)
That's very nice of you. Thank you.

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[info]muridae_x
2006-11-03 05:01 pm UTC (link)
Two items:

* Link text for the recent entries, friends, calendar/archive, user info and memories menu entries seems to truncate at 20 characters now. Previous, next and guestbook are unaffected. It's definitely a recent change rather than something that was there all along; I have a 21-character friends link which dropped a character when I used the wizard to play with SS's new features, but it was fine when I made some modifications a couple of months ago.

* Any chance of getting the wizard to include customisation of the "text_multiform_opt_track" and "text_multiform_opt_untrack" text? The entries are already there to customise the "Track This" text for entries; it'd be nice to have the comment text included as well.

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[info]dragonmother
2007-04-17 02:36 am UTC (link)
Your tutorial on adding an image to the headerblock worked perfectly, thank you!

Smoothsailing is simply amazing, with the amount of customisable properties you've put in- right out of the box. Now, I'm asking for more...

My request is about pushing elements around.
•The title bar- the one that tells you which page you're on. I would love to move it, for instance to the top of the sidebar, or simply make it gone.

•I would love to place a freetext box at the top of the entries column, a la the unearthed template.

can you help?

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[info]dragonmother
2007-04-17 03:04 am UTC (link)
In fact, can I change the length of the text input for the title bar? I'd like to expand it to a couple of sentences. 'cause that would work as well!

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[info]masterslacker
2007-04-17 10:22 pm UTC (link)
Hey there, thanks for the comments. Here are some tips for what you're trying to achieve:

1. "the title bar" - It would be difficult to move it to the sidebar, but you could easily hide it. Simply go to your Custom Options, and in the Custom CSS section, add the following line to your Custom Sytlesheet:
    .bodyheaderblock { display: none; }

2. "freetext" box above entries - It's not called a free text box, but the functionality is already in the layout. It's called a "Welcome Note". Go to your Custom Options, and in the Page Text section, look for the two options with "Welcome Note" in the label. It will allow you to add a text box that remains above the entries. However, it will only show on the Recent Entries page.

Mike.

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[info]dragonmother
2007-04-19 12:15 am UTC (link)
Thank you!

You had a beautiful bit of code that changes the header image according to the page.

Can I tweak that same code to dictate which page the title bar shows on? Because my "recent views" title is too long for the database, evidently, so I'm going to use the Welcome Note for that. But I'd like to keep it for the other pages.

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[info]poulpette
2007-05-14 02:43 pm UTC (link)
Currently the sideboxes particular ids are attributed only to the .sideboxContent, making it hard to handle their title, especially when positionning the content absolutly.
Since ids are only present once in a page, wouldn't it be more logical (and allowing more possibilities for styling the layout) if the ids were to be attributed to the .sidebox container instead?

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