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mindsuk
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playing with x3: gallery

08 Dec 2016, 14:31

I playing around with the new x3 and now I have some questions.

1. How could I get rid of the folder name displayed on the page? (for example in the screenshot: "Skizzen")
2. How could I arrange the thumbnails more in the middle of the page? Actually all thumbnails are straight on top of the page :(
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mjau-mjau
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Re: playing with x3: gallery

09 Dec 2016, 02:49

mindsuk wrote:1. How could I get rid of the folder name displayed on the page? (for example in the screenshot: "Skizzen")
Go to the page settings -> context, and remove the title tag. You could also do this globally from settings -> page -> context:

mindsuk wrote:2. How could I arrange the thumbnails more in the middle of the page? Actually all thumbnails are straight on top of the page :(
Well, first of all, they are on top because you have no padding, and because you have removed some items and changed sorting, although that could easily be remedied by adding some padding. But more importantly, this is backwards-design that is not logical in modern-age responsive design that suits all devices. Lets say you have 20 thumbnails, what happens if you are gonna center the thumbnails? More importantly, even with 5 thumbnails, what happens on mobile devices when the thumbnails collapse into a single row? At best, you could only hope to achieve such a non-scroll layout if you only have a few thumbnails, that you KNOW will not require scroll on ANY device. If I am viewing from a mega-screen say 2880px, why would I need to move vision downwards by 1000px just to view a few small thumbnails? X3 is built around a modern "responsive" principle that content starts from the top, with appropriate spacing, and anything that extends past the visible browser area (depending on screen size), is scrollable.

YES we can easily fix so that more space is added above the thumbnails, but NO it's not feasible to try to re-think the logic of modern design flow implemented in X3. At best, I could perhaps offer a "hack" that would center those thumbnails, but I would not be able to answer for any logical complications you would meet by doing this.