Replace style-screenshot with Preview Button

[kaigou]

Title:
Replace style-screenshot with Preview Button

Area:
customization, backend

Summary:
On the Select Journal / Customize theme pages, where it says "User's Current Theme", turn the image into a preview button for the user's own style.

Description:
Currently, the image is static and doesn't reflect any changes made in the Wizard, which renders it useless (and worse, potentially confusing) once a user's done any significant color/layout changes in the wizard. Also, there's no way to preview changes without going to a separate browser tag/window and reloading.

Retaining the layout/theme names but with a "preview your style" button makes editing a lot easier, because the user would only have to click on the button to get a pop-up screen (same method/function as when you preview potential styles before selection). This would also alleviate the impression that even when one's done a bunch of changes that one's style is still "what's in that picture".

[Possible add'l benefit of implementation but NOT necessarily part of this suggestion, just something to consider: removing the image could allow for three-column setup in that top-most section, with the left column staying as-is, and the middle column listing layout, theme, and the preview button, and the final column listing the additional options. This (I hope) might also reduce the height of that top-section, which would save a lot of time for smaller-screen users who otherwise have to page-down to get back to the page's content, after every save/reload.]

Poll #1744 Replace style-screenshot with Preview Button

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 23

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Should be implemented as-is.
12 (52.2%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
4 (17.4%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (4.3%)

(I have no opinion)
6 (26.1%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[azurelunatic]

It could certainly stand to be labeled more accurately, in that it's the thing with default settings, though.

[ninetydegrees]

Agreed but labeling it 'preview' would be inaccurate as you're not previewing your changes. You're either seeing your journal as it is or seeing your changes once you've saved them.