lbryio / lbryio/lbry-desktop

Meaningfully Styled URLs

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area: ux type: improvement
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Description

As someone that is very UX/UI focused, I thought it would be a good idea to have the different parts of the URL more apparent than others. The permanent part of the URL is not something that needs to be seen. Making it less obvious with an opacity reduction would make the whole URL look more attractive and more obvious what it points to.

The channel part of a URL (not shown) could also have a slight colour adjustment, such as a LBRY shade of green, to help a user identify that part and help make the URL more meaningful.

More crazy ideas from me, but what would the world be without crazy people! 😭

**Normal Style**: Looks messy and confusing.

![lbryapp2](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/29914179/49491691-f72a4b00-f8a0-11e8-8851-1904fb0507ec.jpg)

**Meaningful Style**: Looks pleasing and informative.

![lbryapp1](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/29914179/49491124-bb8e8180-f89e-11e8-8c1a-00ef54eb5740.jpg)

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Use the issue description and its Normal Style and Meaningful Style screenshots as the starting specification, then locate the existing URL-rendering entry point in lbry-desktop. Done means the permanent and channel portions of the URL have distinct opacity or color treatment that makes the destination easier to understand and matches an agreed design.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
electron, javascript, react
Domain
design, desktop, frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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