User pictures

I'm really fed up with having non-work-safe user pics on my friends' page. No, am not calling into question anyone's right to have non-work-safe pictures or to use them when they want. I just don't want them on my friends page - which I regularly read from places other than my own home.

It seems that the solutions to this are:

(a) using the Lynx site scheme, which I don't want to do, because I much prefer XColibur for its useful functions.

(b) changing my journal style to one that doesn't use user pictures at all, and I don't want to do that 'cos I like the 'Classic' style. I want to keep my journal style as simple and unfussy as possible because I'm more interested in the content of what I'm/other people are writing than the style in which it's written. I'm also aware that most people will be reading in their own style through their own friends pages so don't see the point in spending time on a style no one will use.

(c) getting bogged down in S2 layers and seeing if I can remove the code that displays user pics on friends pages.

I am about to do (c), so if stuff goes wacky, this is why.

Now done - way of doing it was: Advanced customisations, create custom theme layer, copy in the print_entry bit from the Classic source code and then edit the line

if ($userpic != "" and ($p.view == "friends" or $*show_entry_userpic == true))
      {
          print $userpic;
      }

so that "friends" = "recent".

This means I get user pics on my recent entries page and none on my friends' page and I'm happy:-)

User pictures

I'm really fed up with having non-work-safe user pics on my friends' page. No, am not calling into question anyone's right to have non-work-safe pictures or to use them when they want. I just don't want them on my friends page - which I regularly read from places other than my own home.

It seems that the solutions to this are:

(a) using the Lynx site scheme, which I don't want to do, because I much prefer XColibur for its useful functions.

(b) changing my journal style to one that doesn't use user pictures at all, and I don't want to do that 'cos I like the 'Classic' style. I want to keep my journal style as simple and unfussy as possible because I'm more interested in the content of what I'm/other people are writing than the style in which it's written. I'm also aware that most people will be reading in their own style through their own friends pages so don't see the point in spending time on a style no one will use.

(c) getting bogged down in S2 layers and seeing if I can remove the code that displays user pics on friends pages.

I am about to do (c), so if stuff goes wacky, this is why.

Now done - way of doing it was: Advanced customisations, create custom theme layer, copy in the print_entry bit from the Classic source code and then edit the line

if ($userpic != "" and ($p.view == "friends" or $*show_entry_userpic == true))
      {
          print $userpic;
      }

so that "friends" = "recent".

This means I get user pics on my recent entries page and none on my friends' page and I'm happy:-)