[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #22058: Improve custom background properties UI

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#22058: Improve custom background properties UI
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 Reporter:  grapplerulrich           |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement              |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Customize                |     Version:  3.4.2
 Severity:  normal                   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch ui-feedback    |     Focuses:  ui, accessibility,
  needs-testing has-screenshots      |  administration
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Comment (by FolioVision):

 @celloexpressions

 Point well made about not removing functionality, Nick. I played around
 with the existing background image interface today, and was pretty happy
 with how simple and smooth the action is. The only functionality which
 seems missing is the option to compress a large image to fit within the
 background of a smaller mobile device (although with hires mobile style
 screens becoming more common, this issue could solve itself: Retina type
 screens could just use the desktop settings on a per pixel basis which
 effectively is hires).

 There is an argument to be made for making the options visible (but greyed
 out) before someone uploads an image. It took me a few minutes to
 understand why there are no options just an upload button. The counter
 argument is that the additional options even greyed out creates additional
 mental strain for a normal user analysing information presented about an
 unused feature. I can see both sides here.

 If we agree that background image is not best practices to build a website
 these days, it seems counter productive to add a whole lot more edge case
 options - additional options suggests to me that we encourage people to
 use this tool and those options.

 The long run danger I'm worry about would be to make customizer unwieldy,
 rather than making customizer a cheap and cheerful way to customize a
 standard theme. The best version of Microsoft Word, it is said, is version
 5.1 for Macintosh, released in 1992. There were enough features, elegantly
 put together to allow a user to learn the program quickly and intuitively
 and produce very high calibre documents. Almost everything added since
 have been excuses to force an upgrade. As we aren't selling WordPress
 (free), in theory we should be exempt from features for features sake.

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