Include Name of Journal Base Style and Theme In Credit Module in Journal

[ivorygates]

Title:
Include Name of Journal Base Style and Theme In Credit Module in Journal

Area:
Styles

Summary:
By default, journal styles credit the designer or designers of the base style and the theme and display that information in one of the modules. What does not appear is the name of the base style or of the theme being used by the journal. It would be nice if that information also displayed.

Description:
When I read a journal displayed in the owner's style, there are many times when I would like to know what base style and what theme they have chosen. While there is a default module that appears in the journal [unless you select to remove it] that displays the names of the people who created the base style and the theme, neither the base style name nor the theme name is displayed in the module [at least in any of the journals I've looked at]. This is frustrating if you see a style/theme you think you'd really like and have to do a lot of trial and error on the "Select Journal Style" page to try to find it, and it would be nice if there were an option to display this information by default.

Since some people write their own style from scratch, or tweak the theme, or use their own resources for background images, it would probably also be nice if the module that displayed full style and color credits could automatically default to "Base style: DesignerName; Theme: JournalOwner; Resources: Journal Owner" in that case.

Poll #7105 Include Name of Journal Base Style and Theme In Credit Module in Journal

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 51

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Should be implemented as-is.
37 (72.5%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
13 (25.5%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[matgb]

I keep meaning to suggest this, then forget when I've time, so yes please. I perpetually forget what Theme miss_s_b is using so have edited her Styles to call them "Jennie's Dark theme", "Jennie's Purple Theme" etc instead, then it doesn't matter as much.

Something that lets me go "oh, that's a nice feature, I want to look at the code for that" without having to view source and hope it's there somewhere would be very much appreciated. Added bonus, it'll help when fixing code for others, if I know what they're using I can tell them where to add code much easier.

[ninetydegrees]

I think this is a duplicate of http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/154908.html.

(and I'm working on it! :)

[montuos]

Thank you! :)

I had enough trouble tracking it down when I stumbled across the style I'm using now that I actually put this information in the custom text module! That must have been before even theme credit became a default too, because I have that in the custom text as well.

[roximonoxide]

This would be exceptionally helpful to me if this module came with a user input field for entering extra credits of our own.