style=mine in Inbox

[cheyinka]

Title:
style=mine in Inbox

Area:
inbox / notifications

Summary:
Links to entries and comments from the Inbox don't use style=mine even when you've specified that you want to "View comment pages from your Reading Page in your own style", but they should.

Description:
If you've specified that you want to view comment pages in your own style, links to those comment pages have style=mine appended, unless it's a link from your recent entries or archive page (where it'd be superfluous).

This is true even if you go to someone else's recent entries or archive page - it's not just links from your reading page, like the option suggests.

But it's *not* true for links from the inbox, and as far as I can tell there isn't a separate setting for that. Since it already is more than just your reading page, it should include the inbox, also. (That way if someone *wants* to see the other person's style, the "style=mine" can be deleted, rather than having to *add* that to make the link from the inbox readable.)

(Either way, the wording of the option should be made clearer, since it's a) not just the reading page and b) could be site scheme instead of your journal style, if you've unselected "Show entry pages in my journal style rather than the site layout" from the Customize Journal Style page.)

Poll #3033 style=mine in Inbox

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 55

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Should be implemented as-is.
34 (61.8%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
5 (9.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
4 (7.3%)

(I have no opinion)
12 (21.8%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[allchildren]

Honestly I wish it would be true of every single comment page from any source when logged in. The navbar is a lifesaver but it'd be cool to skip that step if possible.

[noracharles]

Yes.

[fizzyblogic]

+1

[kyrielle]

This, yes.

[turlough]

+1 (and you should be able to use style=light in the same way)

[stasha2g]

+1

[aveleh]

There's a ticket for that - #168. It is my FAVOURITE of all things to come.

(I point it out because it's good to know it's been thought of.)

[allchildren]

Yay!

[aveleh]

I voted "shouldn't be implemented" because I think that adding the ?style= stuff at the end of URLs should be depreciated as much as possible (because it interferes with other people when sharing links) and this problem would be solved with the implementation of bug 168 (which would make it so that you can select exactly how these pages should look, without the variables being added).

To be clear - I very very very much agree with you that it would be better if it was more automatic for pages to appear how we want them to appear. It drives me crazy to load other people's pages, whether I'm linked from the inbox or from someone else's rec, and to have to be change/remove the style to make it comfortable to read. And normally I think that little things should come before big things. But I just feel that implementing it this way would encourage the use of the URLs that also drive me crazy.

[snakeling]

Good point. I didn't know about bug 168, so I'm changing my vote to: implement bug 168 :)

[kate_nepveu]

Likewise.

[cheyinka]

That's a downside I didn't consider, because I didn't realize that the style=whatever stuff bothered people!