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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« on October 21st, 2010, 08:21 AM »
Just as long as it's not Wedge Antilles or a Wedgie :P
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« on October 20th, 2010, 01:54 PM »
Yup... Although ideally it's hard to make it 'just work' when we're really working on putting cutting-edge stuff into it.
I don't have a personal concept of what the Wedge is. You have to see it for yourself™.
I just want something that looks cool and has a small logo that can be reduced to a 16x16 favicon that still looks good. It's much harder than it seems. I actually reworked my own logo when I found it didn't look fantastic as a favicon. Now it does. Which is why I'd really be interested in seeing you try your hand at a favicon, too.
It's not just the favicon, btw... It's nice to have a Wedge icon that can be used in several places.
I don't have a personal concept of what the Wedge is. You have to see it for yourself™.
I just want something that looks cool and has a small logo that can be reduced to a 16x16 favicon that still looks good. It's much harder than it seems. I actually reworked my own logo when I found it didn't look fantastic as a favicon. Now it does. Which is why I'd really be interested in seeing you try your hand at a favicon, too.
It's not just the favicon, btw... It's nice to have a Wedge icon that can be used in several places.
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« on October 19th, 2010, 06:09 PM »
Well, I have a feeling you're trying not to hurt my feelings beyond what you said here :^^;:Quote from Arantor on October 18th, 2010, 08:57 PM It's okay Pete, you MAY think I suck at design, because that's true! (Well, I'm better than most, but if I were a good designer, I wouldn't be a code monkey in the first place!)
Bloc, that's awesome! It covers what we're trying to say - blunt, to the point, but smoothly done.
That's really what we've been aiming at with Wedge to date, which is why the non-UTF-8 stuff is gone, why PGSQL/SQLite is gone etc, we're not trying to cater to everyone or everything.
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« on October 19th, 2010, 05:42 PM »
Bump for Pete and pretty much everyone...
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Features / Re: Recycling board by default
« on October 19th, 2010, 10:04 AM »That's my point: it's not set up in SMF by default though I really think it should be (which is why I'm suggesting it here), but I'm on the fence. If you've come from SMF you may not want/need such, but you also may not know about it.
My problem is that I really hate how the recycle board is implemented right now.
http://dev.simplemachines.org/mantis/view.php?id=1626
http://dev.simplemachines.org/mantis/view.php?id=2887
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« on October 18th, 2010, 10:51 PM »
Any other opinions...?
I asked my girlfriend her advice on all of the logos on this page. She's a skilled computer user but doesn't have much patience for websites. I still thought an external opinion is good.
"(My latest) What's that thing in the middle of the text? Ah, a wedge? Well it isn't obvious.
(Bloc's latest) Is there an accent in "Wédge"? That's weird...
(My fave) Meh.
(Overall) Red sucks. Keep the text only."
I don't like her comments, but I felt I should be honest enough to post them...
I asked my girlfriend her advice on all of the logos on this page. She's a skilled computer user but doesn't have much patience for websites. I still thought an external opinion is good.
"(My latest) What's that thing in the middle of the text? Ah, a wedge? Well it isn't obvious.
(Bloc's latest) Is there an accent in "Wédge"? That's weird...
(My fave) Meh.
(Overall) Red sucks. Keep the text only."
I don't like her comments, but I felt I should be honest enough to post them...
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Off-topic / Re: I can't help it....
« on October 18th, 2010, 10:33 PM »
No can see in the actual web page ;)
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« on October 18th, 2010, 09:34 PM »
I like it (you're really good at minimalistic design, Master!), but (there's always a but), have you tried making a favicon out of it?
I tried, and it doesn't look good...
I'm attaching my current favicon, which is pretty good if I may say so myself. (Kryten's voice.)
As for the wedge's position, I was thinking, why not INSIDE? Here's a cutout version and a regular one...
As of now, I still prefer my own version, mainly because of the favicon, and also because I like the concept of Wedge as an orange wedge (an idea we're looking into reusing in the software to call boards themselves) and it also suggests a simple machine (part of a cog), while a wedge object represents nothing more than a simple machine.
Also, I like the palette I used. Colors are important.
We're onto something!
:edit: Added a lighter version of the wedge.
I tried, and it doesn't look good...
I'm attaching my current favicon, which is pretty good if I may say so myself. (Kryten's voice.)
As for the wedge's position, I was thinking, why not INSIDE? Here's a cutout version and a regular one...
As of now, I still prefer my own version, mainly because of the favicon, and also because I like the concept of Wedge as an orange wedge (an idea we're looking into reusing in the software to call boards themselves) and it also suggests a simple machine (part of a cog), while a wedge object represents nothing more than a simple machine.
Also, I like the palette I used. Colors are important.
We're onto something!
:edit: Added a lighter version of the wedge.
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Features / Re: New revs
« on October 18th, 2010, 09:16 PM »
Oh my... An awful lot of code! Must have been painful to implement... Question time on the related topic!
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« on October 18th, 2010, 07:04 PM »
Okay, what do you think of this one...?
It's the latest committed logo. It's not perfect, but it's the idea. Really. I'm very happy with it now.
It's the latest committed logo. It's not perfect, but it's the idea. Really. I'm very happy with it now.
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Features / Re: Editor JS
« on October 18th, 2010, 05:19 PM »
rev 220, 221, 222: http://wedge.org/?msg=249861
rev 223
- Removed validate_unicode__recursive entirely. (QueryString.php, Subs.php)
* Updated to SMF rev 10187. All of the changes are DB related, and most of them were already done in Wedge. (changelog.txt, upgrade.php, DbExtra.php, DbPackages.php, DbSearch.php)
! UTF8 fixes. Thank you, Nao! (Subs.php, Subs-Post.php) [Bug 4498]
! One more slight change, in supported versions. (install, upgrade, convert scripts)
! Now MySQL versions support ENGINE, so simplify some things. (several files)
! Escaping potential identifiers used as column names (DbExtra-mysql.php, DbExtra-postgresql.php) [Bug 4261]
rev 223
- Removed validate_unicode__recursive entirely. (QueryString.php, Subs.php)
* Updated to SMF rev 10187. All of the changes are DB related, and most of them were already done in Wedge. (changelog.txt, upgrade.php, DbExtra.php, DbPackages.php, DbSearch.php)
! UTF8 fixes. Thank you, Nao! (Subs.php, Subs-Post.php) [Bug 4498]
! One more slight change, in supported versions. (install, upgrade, convert scripts)
! Now MySQL versions support ENGINE, so simplify some things. (several files)
! Escaping potential identifiers used as column names (DbExtra-mysql.php, DbExtra-postgresql.php) [Bug 4261]
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Off-topic / Re: Aaaaaaaaghhh
« on October 18th, 2010, 08:28 AM »
It's old, really! 1991 I think. On the Atari ST. Best anti-virus of its kind at the time.
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Off-topic / Re: Aaaaaaaaghhh
« on October 17th, 2010, 09:15 PM »* Nao/Gilles wrote an anti-virus when he was a kid and laughs at viruses all over the world.
Okay, I may have told this story one time too many :P
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Features / Re: New revs
« on October 17th, 2010, 08:20 PM »
rev 219
* Updated to SMF svn 10185 whatever needed to be updated. *sob* Second time I get my name in the changelog. Also updated French version.
! Oops, yet some more formatting cleanup! Nao in action :). And other pedantic stuff. (several files) [Bug 4505]
* Moved CSS and JavaScript to top. (index template) [Bug 4468]
! Fixed an undefined variable in some cases (Subs.php) (Note from Nao: changed the code to avoid using an extra line.)
! Some actions were unnecessarily logged. (index.php) [Bug 4465]
& Who's Online language strings were missing for some actions. (Who.php, Who language file) [Bug 4465]
* Updated to SMF svn 10185 whatever needed to be updated. *sob* Second time I get my name in the changelog. Also updated French version.
! Oops, yet some more formatting cleanup! Nao in action :). And other pedantic stuff. (several files) [Bug 4505]
* Moved CSS and JavaScript to top. (index template) [Bug 4468]
! Fixed an undefined variable in some cases (Subs.php) (Note from Nao: changed the code to avoid using an extra line.)
! Some actions were unnecessarily logged. (index.php) [Bug 4465]
& Who's Online language strings were missing for some actions. (Who.php, Who language file) [Bug 4465]
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« on October 17th, 2010, 05:28 PM »
Wouldn't you rather use your new toys to play around with the two logos I posted earlier? :P
(Icon set is DroplineNeu.)
(Icon set is DroplineNeu.)