[chaley]

Originally Posted by PatNY

I hope you keep the bookshelves! I know I said in an earlier post that either would work, but I'm growing increasingly fond of the bookshelf design -- the grain, shadowing in the shelves, visual separation between rows, etc -- the longer I use the beta version. Your designer did a great job with that. So I hope it stays, at least as an option.

Oh yes, that will stay an option.

Here are some thoughts; just thinking out loud (not requests):

I think it's great you are willing to give users options for shelf colors. How about a white wash wood version ... and a cherry wood version as ducks suggested? Together with the darker gray and your original wood version, that should cover just about everyone's tastes.

When I thought of making variations, my list was pine, oak, cherry, and dark walnut.

I will pass this to Annie. She gets to decide what and when.

If you ever do go to a plain background, would you ever consider giving users the choice to use their own custom wallpaper as the background?

Up to Steven & Annie.

There might be interesting side effects. There are 4 images that make up the bookshelves, a left shelf section (with left edge), the center sections (no edges), a right section (with right edge), and the wood "background" for when there aren't enough shelves to fill the screen. These are tiled together to make the shelf unit you see.

Using flat images for all three won't cause any tiling effects because there isn't any texture at the image edges. However, tiling together user images would probably create tiling edge artifacts, especially if the images are discrete "things" and not textures/papers. Don't know if that would be a deal killer, but I suspect it would.