[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #36255: Custom Logo: Crop UI

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#36255: Custom Logo: Crop UI
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 Reporter:  mor10                  |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)           |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                 |   Milestone:  4.5
Component:  Customize              |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal                 |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch ux-feedback  |     Focuses:  ui
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Comment (by mor10):

 From a user perspective, this is necessary. While designers and developers
 may have images that are cropped to fit, most users do not, or do not know
 how to do it. WordPress has trained its users to assume a crop UI will
 appear whenever a crop is relevant (Site Icon, Header Image, etc), and the
 lack of such a UI in this features seems arbitrary.

 More importantly, if no crop option is provided, theme developers will
 resort to automatic hard crop on the back end to ensure the image is
 output in the correct proportions. For users who do not crop their images
 in advance, this will appear random and cause frustration.

 The larger concern of a crop UI adding an extra step in the user flow is
 equally true for Site Icon and Header Image, so if that's the conversation
 we're having, it must be expanded to these features. From a user
 perspective there is no qualitative difference between these three
 features, and arguing that the UI is too obtrusive in this instance but
 not the two other ones is not consistent.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/36255#comment:6>
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