Picnik Replacement to be backported to 5.4?
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Does the C5 Core team have any plans to back-port the picnik replacement to also support those who are stuck (for whatever reason) on the last release of 5.4?
Franz: maybe you want to comment about this in the totally random this week?
Franz: maybe you want to comment about this in the totally random this week?
I just read all 60 posts on the long thread and didn't see my point raised. Was only trying to be helpful!
http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/chat/google-shutting-picn...
http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/chat/google-shutting-picn...
no worries.
we're building a new image cropping tool into concrete5.
short of picnik being able to redirect traffic to a URL for us (which we've asked for but is unlikely as they are shutting down) there's nothing technically we could do about the many copies of concrete5 that are out there today.
we're building a new image cropping tool into concrete5.
short of picnik being able to redirect traffic to a URL for us (which we've asked for but is unlikely as they are shutting down) there's nothing technically we could do about the many copies of concrete5 that are out there today.
Hi Franz,
I was thinking about the solution being the "other way round".
When Picnik dies, those on anything <5.5.2? (I'm assuming here) will probably see some error, or error page when trying to edit an image.
Many of those folks may not follow the forums, news or your most excellent weekly totally random show so have no idea about Picnik ceasing.
After the 19th April, those people are likely to go "o dear why is image editing not working, let me look at concrete5 and see if they know about it"
Once they arrive at the concrete5 community they can be advised to upgrade to >5.5.2, but IF for some reason this is not possible straight away(for whatever reason), or they could be advised that if they can upgrade to 5.4.2.2 then a addon is available in the market place which will override the picnik stuff and install the new in-house concrete5 image tools as found in the 5.5 series.
This then enables them to carry on working with 5.4 series for the time being, knowing that they will need to upgrade soon, but at least they are not forced to make that update today and they can take their time to assess if there old addons will work with 5.5, what user training issues they might have the PAIN to manually convert from scrapbooks to blocks (whatever)
So what i'm saying... Once you clever chaps have got the new image tools working for 5.5.2 then maybe take a look at packaging it up for those stuck on 5.4 as an addon. Not priority supported, not working as well as 5.5, but at least gives them something better than a dead picnik. (Make it chargeable if you like!)
I suspect you have a huge amount of installs still running 5.4 or older. The bummer with picnik closing is that for some it'll be "the image tools in concrete5" that has stopped working not the external 3rd party service. By proactively helping those older installations out now it may well give a more positive experience then to just say, upgrade to 5.5.x and you get the chance to re-educate on the ideas of updating.
Hope this helps, and sort of makes sense.
I was thinking about the solution being the "other way round".
When Picnik dies, those on anything <5.5.2? (I'm assuming here) will probably see some error, or error page when trying to edit an image.
Many of those folks may not follow the forums, news or your most excellent weekly totally random show so have no idea about Picnik ceasing.
After the 19th April, those people are likely to go "o dear why is image editing not working, let me look at concrete5 and see if they know about it"
Once they arrive at the concrete5 community they can be advised to upgrade to >5.5.2, but IF for some reason this is not possible straight away(for whatever reason), or they could be advised that if they can upgrade to 5.4.2.2 then a addon is available in the market place which will override the picnik stuff and install the new in-house concrete5 image tools as found in the 5.5 series.
This then enables them to carry on working with 5.4 series for the time being, knowing that they will need to upgrade soon, but at least they are not forced to make that update today and they can take their time to assess if there old addons will work with 5.5, what user training issues they might have the PAIN to manually convert from scrapbooks to blocks (whatever)
So what i'm saying... Once you clever chaps have got the new image tools working for 5.5.2 then maybe take a look at packaging it up for those stuck on 5.4 as an addon. Not priority supported, not working as well as 5.5, but at least gives them something better than a dead picnik. (Make it chargeable if you like!)
I suspect you have a huge amount of installs still running 5.4 or older. The bummer with picnik closing is that for some it'll be "the image tools in concrete5" that has stopped working not the external 3rd party service. By proactively helping those older installations out now it may well give a more positive experience then to just say, upgrade to 5.5.x and you get the chance to re-educate on the ideas of updating.
Hope this helps, and sort of makes sense.
create this file
put this in it
EDIT: sorry, didn't mean to be a jerk. You cannot override elements in packages so there isn't anywhere to block this without manually adding the file.
Best,
Mike
/elements/files/edit/image.php
put this in it
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EDIT: sorry, didn't mean to be a jerk. You cannot override elements in packages so there isn't anywhere to block this without manually adding the file.
Best,
Mike
best wishes
Franz Maruna
CEO - concrete5.org
http://about.me/frz