transparent info box?

[anarcat]

what would be the best way to make the background color on the galleria infobox transparent?

I'd like to turn this:

into that:

I did this by changing the background-color on the galleria-info-text element to rgb(0,0,0,0.5) (instead of #000) but I am not sure I want to hack at the galleria theme directly...

[saimn]

Not sure if this should be changed on the default style as it could be less readable on more white images ?
And currently there is no way to customize easily a theme, other than using a modified copy. But that would certainly be a useful feature, we could have a user_css setting to point to a file that would be loaded on each theme, to allow easy customization like this that can be done in pure css.

[anarcat]

well, it's "black with transparent background", so presumably it would still work white dimmer images...

a user_css would certainly be useful, and yeah, maybe i just need to take this upstream to galleria, shouldn't i? :)

[saimn]

well, it's "black with transparent background", so presumably it would still work white dimmer images...

yes, maybe, but it's something t check. If it gives good results, I'm fine with integrating this change in the default style (in sigal).

a user_css would certainly be useful, and yeah, maybe i just need to take this upstream to galleria, shouldn't i? :)

It would be useful for all themes in sigal, so that's really something to do on our side I think.

[anarcat]

okay then, here's how it looks like with a (mostly) white background:

LGTM. :)

[saimn]

The contrast seems too poor to me (see below), it could work with alpha 0.8 but is it enough transparent for you ?

With 0.8:

[anarcat]

sure, as long as there's some transparency...

(wow, that's a fast shot!!! one billionth of a second?? that can't be right...)

[saimn]

Ok, after some testing I think 0.7 works well so I added this, thanks for the suggestion.