Is there anyone that uses the fivestar color picker?

Is a great feature, but there's too much there to maintain. I want to know if these feature is being used. If not I think we should remove it.

We can always set up a separate site that allows you to create the stars and download them to your server or maybe create a star that can be changed with css, etc.

We'll see if we get any replies. If not we'll probably remove it.

Thanks.

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james.elliott’s picture

james.elliott’s picture

I should say, here is the patch to remove the color picker assuming there is no interest expressed.

ericduran’s picture

yea,

I think this should go. If anything we can have a fivestar_extra module that add this functionality back, but I really don't want to support this on the fivestar core module. I don't think is used that often. I'll wait a little longer see if anyone actually disagrees with me, if now we'll drop it.

Thanks for the patch.

cliff’s picture

@ericduran, I'm just now downloading fivestar to test on a conference website. We'll (try to) use it to create a rating system for reviewing proposed sessions. (This isn't an unconference; it has blind reviews, sometimes suggests proposers change the format of a session to get it accepted, the whole bit.)

Get me up to speed, please: Exactly what purpose does the color picker serve?

ericduran’s picture

@cliff, The color picker is only the for when people want to configure the color of the stars. The problem is that only a couple of the stars are actually configurable. Thats about it.

This is a great feature that can live either on another module or on a website which would let you configure the colors of yours stars then allow you to downloaded them on your website. But thats about it.

james.elliott’s picture

Attaching latest patch. I found some more color related loose ends.

Alphabool’s picture

If the proposal is to remove the widget that allows you to specify colors by clicking on the color wheel/gradient, then no, I don't use that. However, if the proposal is to remove the entire 'color scheme' options, I don't support that because I really want to be able to customize the colors of my stars. However, I'm having trouble getting it to work on the 7.x-2.x-dev branch; I can change the colors in the configuration form but on nodes the voting widget's colors don't change, even after clearing Drupal cache and browser cache.

ericduran’s picture

Status: Active » Needs review

This is to remove the entire color picker and color scheme.

I'm very tempted to remove all this, I don't think the use is that great and its just a lot of extra code to maintain. I'm going to try and maybe separate it out into an extra module or something.

We can start a fivestar_extra that contains some of the functionality that really doesn't belong in fivestar.

Alphabool’s picture

To be honest I could never get it to work and so ended up overriding it in my CSS, so it was of no use to me.

ericduran’s picture

Category: feature » task

Hmm, I'm so tempted to just rip this out. I'll see if I can roll it into a separate module, it its possible then I'm going to rip it out.

I'm going to switch to this a task in case anyone else wants to give it a shot.

ericduran’s picture

Priority: Major » Critical
ericduran’s picture

Status: Needs review » Fixed

This got committed in with a different patch.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

Marc Bijl’s picture

Question then: how can I change the color by using CSS? Which class defines the color?

Thnx!

Marc Bijl’s picture

Allright, here's what I did.

- Opened the star.png from the widget I use (oxygene) in Photoshop
- Changed the value for Hue (via adjustments, hue/saturation)
- Saved and replaced the star.png at the server

Is this the right way to achieve the color change of stars?