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Postby dubigrasu » Jun 7th, '11, 07:30

Is there something that can be done with these Smilies?
Cos' they are absolutely horrible.
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Re: Smilies

Postby Germ » Jun 7th, '11, 12:16

Agreed. We need to find a 'smiley pack'. The ones we have now are default but can be changed.
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Re: Smilies

Postby maat » Jun 7th, '11, 21:22

And they will be changed :)
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Re: Smilies

Postby Sfiet_Konstantin » Jun 8th, '11, 15:39

What about taking kmess smilies ? They are very cute :)
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Re: Smilies

Postby maat » Jun 8th, '11, 16:24

I like them but i think i've found better ;)

(but not sure i can use those i found atm)

Stay tuned :)
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Re: Smilies

Postby isadora » Jun 8th, '11, 16:39

Only accepted when they have a magical appearance ;-)
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Re: Smilies

Postby maat » Jun 8th, '11, 17:14

I thought of these from Armany ( http://artdesigner.lv )

Because of the quality of her work and because of the blue color...

http://artdesigner.lv/wp-content/upload ... ycrazy.jpg
http://artdesigner.lv/wp-content/upload ... er.lv_.jpg

What do you think ?
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Re: Smilies

Postby isadora » Jun 8th, '11, 17:28

Very nice indeed, Image
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Re: Smilies

Postby dubigrasu » Jun 8th, '11, 17:33

Excellent!
I expected something more..decent, but these are quite beautiful.
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Re: Smilies

Postby maat » Jun 8th, '11, 18:41

decent ??

You found these emoticon shameful ?
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Re: Smilies

Postby dubigrasu » Jun 8th, '11, 19:06

Bad choice of words from my part, in my native language "decent" could have some other meanings also. Sometimes I forget that, sorry.
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Re: Smilies

Postby Sfiet_Konstantin » Jun 8th, '11, 22:44

I'm not found of big blue smileys, they are a bit aggressive :S
(and do not forget that KMess / Kde / Gnome / whatever FOSS app smilies are FOSS, but maybe not these ...
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Re: Smilies

Postby maat » Jun 9th, '11, 12:15

In fact these icons are blue but they are not necessarily big... and imho not agressive :)

They have 3 available sizes : 128pix, 64 pix & 32 pix :

128:
ImageImageImageImage


64:
ImageImageImageImage

32:
ImageImageImageImage
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Re: Smilies

Postby isadora » Jun 9th, '11, 12:17

Cute, i fell in love.;-)
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Re: Smilies

Postby Germ » Jun 9th, '11, 12:42

Nice. :)
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Re: Smilies

Postby Sfiet_Konstantin » Jun 9th, '11, 13:13

maat wrote:Image


This one is frightening :oops: :(
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Re: Smilies

Postby Akien » Jun 9th, '11, 17:35

They look nice!

Though, I find that 32x32 smilies are still big; I don't like it when the smilies add a huge interline because of their size.
Still, they couldn't be so cute in 16x16 ^^
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Re: Smilies

Postby dubigrasu » Jan 4th, '12, 22:06

Anything new on this front?
One of my favourite smilies is Smile but I just can't use it here because is sooo ugly.
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Re: Smilies

Postby wobo » Jan 5th, '12, 11:05

These are the smilies we are using in mandrivauser.de in phpBB3:

http://ftp.mandrivauser.de/smilies/ Image
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Re: Smilies

Postby dubigrasu » Jan 5th, '12, 11:20

Good, classic and nice. Can they be used here somehow?
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Re: Smilies

Postby wobo » Jan 5th, '12, 11:26

Well, as the ftp directory is public you can use it in the way I did in my previous post:
Code: Select all
[img]http://ftp.mandrivauser.de/smilies/jackpot.gif[/img]
but this is not recommended because it generates unnecessary traffic. I only wanted to show a selection which is ready to be inserted in this software quite easily in a couple of minutes. But as you can see, this request has been on the list for a long time without any result.
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Re: Smilies

Postby doktor5000 » Jan 5th, '12, 14:31

wobo wrote:I only wanted to show a selection which is ready to be inserted in this software quite easily in a couple of minutes. But as you can see, this request has been on the list for a long time without any result.


Which is sad by itself. Considering the fact that the forum administrator always said just there's no problem with his availability/visibility. But what do i know ...
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Re: Smilies

Postby wobo » Jan 5th, '12, 14:50

Well, to be fair:
The forum software in Mageia was not installed in the simple way (i.e. on the webserver under webroot/forums) but inside a git system (pls correct me if I'm wrong, I did not understand all the details) with primary focus on easy maintenance. This makes it harder to implement changes to the software code or the files in a directory (which is the case for the change of smilies). What is a minute's work in a stand-alone forum or a forum which was installed the simple way, can be either a more time consuming matter or even rejected at all in the Mageia setup (again due to easy maintenance). This not an excuse for leaving reasonable requests open for many months, just an explanation of the differences.

Example: in a simple stand-alone forum setup like mandrivauser.de I ssh to the server, change the code, document that change in a changelog, done. Whenever a version update is called for I can look at my changelog and implement the changes in the new files.

BTW and for the records: Mageia's forums need updating. They are running 3.0.8, newest version is 3.0.10. :)
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Re: Smilies

Postby doktor5000 » Jan 5th, '12, 15:46

wobo wrote:Well, to be fair:
The forum software in Mageia was not installed in the simple way (i.e. on the webserver under webroot/forums) but inside a git system (pls correct me if I'm wrong, I did not understand all the details) with primary focus on easy maintenance.

Actually i've understood the implementation, it's more that the configuration, templates and patches used for the forum are managed via git/puppet.
But that is still no excuse for such minor changes (remember, i'm not talking about installing a phpbb mod) impacting forum users to take half a year, in my humble opinion. Even more so when there is a forum administrator dedicated for that purpose.
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Re: Smilies

Postby wobo » Jan 5th, '12, 15:53

I just wanted to be fair and give an explanation of the implications to users who may not know about them. Of course I agree with you.
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