[OPINION] The Live Preview feature should be easily turned off.

[MerryPanda]

I don't need Live Preview but can't find the way to turn it off. Please add an option.

[abose]

Please click on the lightning button to turn off live preview.

[MerryPanda]

Thanks, but it is On on start always

[abose]

Ah! In desktop builds from next release, we have made a change so that live preview only comes up on startup if its an html file that is open in editor. Else it wont come up at startup.will that help?

[MerryPanda]

Ah! In desktop builds from next release, we have made a change so that live preview only comes up on startup if its an html file that is open in editor. Else it wont come up at startup.will that help?

I would rather stay it turned off by default. If somebody needs it, they could just turn it on. Why to enforce it?

[abose]

Let me see if i can streamline the first launch popup situation for new users. But you will not see these popups after first launch.

[abose]

This is now possible via live preview settings.

[MerryPanda]

This is now possible via live preview settings.

Yeah, thanks. But when I open a new project there is still a pop up that suggests to edit some live preview stuff. This is very irritating. I just don't understand why to enforce it?

It was not intrusive in Brackets and should stay this way in Phoenix, imho :)

[abose]

Ah! That is likely custom server previews. If you are editing php or jsp or server rendered files, it comes up once for the project. That was a highly requested feature in the surveys.

[MerryPanda]

If I remember correctry it just suggested to turn on the Live Preview. Once again.

It is still unneeded enforcement as you have a special button always available.

This is definitely a bloat.

[abose]

Was it a banner or an orange popup? I have removed all the orange popups for.live preview thus release. A screenshot will help more in identifying which ones we are talking about @MerryPanda

[MerryPanda]

It was a gray banner at the top of the text area. It still required to click "x" to close it.

Please do not use these irritating pop ups. There is a special button already. Please integrate all functionality into it. It is always available so there are no accesability problems.

[abose]

Made change for the next release: It will only be shown when the live preview panel is shown for the first time in a PHP/JSP project. So it should appear a lot less now.