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

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

And they will be changed

What about taking kmess smilies ? They are very cute

I like them but i think i've found better

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

Stay tuned

Only accepted when they have a magical appearance

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 ?

Very nice indeed,

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

decent ??

You found these emoticon shameful ?

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

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 ...

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:



64:


32:

Cute, i fell in love.

Nice.

maat wrote:

This one is frightening

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 ^^

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

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

http://ftp.mandrivauser.de/smilies/

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.