[mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists (attempt 2)

Andii Hughes gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org
Fri Jul 22 00:22:43 UTC 2011


On 21 July 2011 23:50, Alex Mauer <hawke at hawkesnest.net> wrote:
> On 07/21/2011 05:28 PM, Andii Hughes wrote:
>> I like the screenshot idea, though it rather contradicts your point about
>> the space taken up, as the screenshot uses more space than the list did.
>
> On my display it’s about even, but the screenshot is much clearer — and
> since you so strongly dislike the simple example, it’s at least a slight
> improvement.
>
>> I'm also unclear as to why the list is such a problem; to me, it provides
>> maximum clarity on what should be entered for each part of the artist
>> credit.
>
> As I said: Lots of numbers, lots of space, unusual terminology/style,
> all to gain approximately nothing (I think people can understand when
> the example in the guideline looks the same as the preview in the
> credits editor) — the need for the spaces becomes very obvious very
> quickly when the preview looks like “Foo,Bar&Baz” instead of “Foo, Bar &
> Baz”
>

Ok, then I'm happy for you to replace the other two with screenshots
in the same way.

> —Alex Mauer “hawke”
>
>
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Andii :-)



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