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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« on October 13th, 2010, 11:37 PM »
Dunno, LOTR maybe?
Dr. Who was an easy one really! You gave it away. Although it's the S1-4 logo, not the latest one. I prefered the old one anyway. :)
Dr. Who was an easy one really! You gave it away. Although it's the S1-4 logo, not the latest one. I prefered the old one anyway. :)
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Features / Re: New revs
« on October 13th, 2010, 11:21 PM »
rev 207
+ Added French language translation -- hopefully up to date! (*.french.php)
+ Added flag icons for French and English languages -- a future feature. (Flag.english.png, Flag.french.png)
- Removed some core/babylon/classic theme leftovers. (upgrade_2-0.sql, Install.english.php)
* Temporarily renamed default theme to 'Wager'. (Install.english.php)
* Replaced logo with a cleaner version made by Bloc. (wedgelogo.png, index.template.php)
+ Added language strings for upcoming features: Ignore Topics, Merge double posts, Spoiler tag, Topic privacy, Blog system. (Errors.english.php, Help.english.php, index.english.php, ManageMembers.english.php, ManageSettings.english.php)
! Some permission names implied that *_any was for "other members", rather than "all members" (i.e. the *_own permission doesn't need to be enabled at the same time.) There may be some leftovers. (ManagePermissions.english.php)Quote from Arantor on October 12th, 2010, 08:19 PM Why would it give errors...? Oh, you mean it was a quick hack, somehow?
+ Added French language translation -- hopefully up to date! (*.french.php)
+ Added flag icons for French and English languages -- a future feature. (Flag.english.png, Flag.french.png)
- Removed some core/babylon/classic theme leftovers. (upgrade_2-0.sql, Install.english.php)
* Temporarily renamed default theme to 'Wager'. (Install.english.php)
* Replaced logo with a cleaner version made by Bloc. (wedgelogo.png, index.template.php)
+ Added language strings for upcoming features: Ignore Topics, Merge double posts, Spoiler tag, Topic privacy, Blog system. (Errors.english.php, Help.english.php, index.english.php, ManageMembers.english.php, ManageSettings.english.php)
! Some permission names implied that *_any was for "other members", rather than "all members" (i.e. the *_own permission doesn't need to be enabled at the same time.) There may be some leftovers. (ManagePermissions.english.php)
I just wanted it to work without spewing errors for registrations so I could sign up test accounts for attachment testing.
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Features / Re: Core/Not Core
« on October 13th, 2010, 07:24 PM »
Yep...
I'll start thinking about how to split the things off.
Only problem is the database. I'm not sure we can create the AeMe tables all the time... But OTOH, they're relatively few, compared with the number of tables we'll be adding in the future.
I'll start thinking about how to split the things off.
Only problem is the database. I'm not sure we can create the AeMe tables all the time... But OTOH, they're relatively few, compared with the number of tables we'll be adding in the future.
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Features / Re: Naming Boards/blogs/sites etc.
« on October 13th, 2010, 07:18 PM »
...Bump? Any opinions?
Also, I've decided that I won't be updating the French version of SMF anymore...
Not only because GravuTrad is more annoying than ever. <PRV> But also because I don't see why I should maintain two French translations, one for Wedge and one for SMF. Wedge will benefit my improvements. SMF can die (kindly.)
Also, I've decided that I won't be updating the French version of SMF anymore...
Not only because GravuTrad is more annoying than ever. <PRV> But also because I don't see why I should maintain two French translations, one for Wedge and one for SMF. Wedge will benefit my improvements. SMF can die (kindly.)
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« on October 13th, 2010, 10:56 AM »
I'm putting your red logo in the header in the meantime. I think it's better than mine so why wait ;)
We still have weeks before a release, so take your time. If you think of a cool logo idea, give it a go!
Try doing something that's not among the lines of what I asked for. Reuse ideas you had for other logos but that you ended up dumping, etc. Maybe they'll work better on this new subject!
We still have weeks before a release, so take your time. If you think of a cool logo idea, give it a go!
Try doing something that's not among the lines of what I asked for. Reuse ideas you had for other logos but that you ended up dumping, etc. Maybe they'll work better on this new subject!
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Features / Re: Naming Boards/blogs/sites etc.
« on October 13th, 2010, 10:43 AM »
Unrelated, but I'll somehow turn this into my "nice discoveries with language files" topic while editing my files...
$txt['lang_locale'] = 'fr_FR.utf8';
That's in the French version. Uh oh. What's the .utf8 for? If you google that, you'll find out that apparently some servers don't support that, etc... I don't know if it's anything specific. Maybe it's French only...
Also, note for self: added strings for the Ignore Topics feature in Admin and Help files. (That's because the feature is already implemented on Noisen. I might as well add the language strings already.)
$txt['lang_locale'] = 'fr_FR.utf8';
That's in the French version. Uh oh. What's the .utf8 for? If you google that, you'll find out that apparently some servers don't support that, etc... I don't know if it's anything specific. Maybe it's French only...
Also, note for self: added strings for the Ignore Topics feature in Admin and Help files. (That's because the feature is already implemented on Noisen. I might as well add the language strings already.)
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Features / Naming Boards/blogs/sites etc.
« on October 13th, 2010, 10:23 AM »
I'm a bit at a loss here.
In Noisen.com, boards are called boards, blogs are called blogs, and sites are called sites. Yay.
A site, in my mind, is like a blog, but without the traditional blog homepage. It would be more like a portal of sorts, allowing you to sort articles manually, rather than chronologically. Internally, it represents few changes really.
However, what happens is that all of these site types are actually just boards.
In the French version of Noisen, I decided to rename "sections" (which is the unlikely French translation for "boards") into "sites". Made more sense to me, especially when offering people the ability to create their own sites. "Create your own section" is quite lackluster... And yes, that pretty much implies that all boards are "sites" by default, and only become "boards" (forums) when specifying so. It doesn't matter at all... I think it's okay. If you want to create a website, you know that forums and blogs have a special layout which you can select, but sites, OTOH, are yours to imagine.
So, should I rename 'board' to 'site' in the code, when it's generic enough, and leave it to board when it's specifically meant as a board? (Which doesn't happen a lot...)
In Noisen.com, boards are called boards, blogs are called blogs, and sites are called sites. Yay.
A site, in my mind, is like a blog, but without the traditional blog homepage. It would be more like a portal of sorts, allowing you to sort articles manually, rather than chronologically. Internally, it represents few changes really.
However, what happens is that all of these site types are actually just boards.
In the French version of Noisen, I decided to rename "sections" (which is the unlikely French translation for "boards") into "sites". Made more sense to me, especially when offering people the ability to create their own sites. "Create your own section" is quite lackluster... And yes, that pretty much implies that all boards are "sites" by default, and only become "boards" (forums) when specifying so. It doesn't matter at all... I think it's okay. If you want to create a website, you know that forums and blogs have a special layout which you can select, but sites, OTOH, are yours to imagine.
So, should I rename 'board' to 'site' in the code, when it's generic enough, and leave it to board when it's specifically meant as a board? (Which doesn't happen a lot...)
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Features / Re: Core/Not Core
« on October 13th, 2010, 07:46 AM »
Oh, my... Indeed, at least that would be a good way to settle the discussion about Aeva Media :P
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« on October 13th, 2010, 07:41 AM »
To answer Pete, and just so we're clear: I'm not pushing for releasing anything with a "smf for real men." logo in it in the final version. Unless a terrorist attack threatens to destroy the entire reality plane within 24 hours if we don't keep it. But apart that, this is just for fun indeed. We're not releasing for another few weeks/months anyway. Plus, I'm sure we'll find plenty of cool slogans from Adonis, ah ah, he should be our resident show writer. I think he got the hang of my silliness, and I will probably end up adding some of his stuff to the rotating slogans in the top left corner ;)
The home of the garlic sausage is wedgeo, not wedge. :P And that's not garlic sausage on the picture! Heresy! At least, not French one!
Bloc, that's good stuff, but the more things go, the closer the logo seems to look like noisen.com's ;)
The home of the garlic sausage is wedgeo, not wedge. :P And that's not garlic sausage on the picture! Heresy! At least, not French one!
Bloc, that's good stuff, but the more things go, the closer the logo seems to look like noisen.com's ;)
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« on October 12th, 2010, 08:17 PM »
Adonis, I love your slogans :lol:
+1 for the white line, too. Bit too thick maybe?
+1 for the white line, too. Bit too thick maybe?
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« on October 12th, 2010, 06:18 PM »
While I'm at it -- I was wondering Bloc, did you make the Phoenix theme for Yourasoft? I always thought you did, but then again I was told yesterday that Eren made it. I Googled "pheonix" "smf" and found a link to your site, although it's currently down... I'm a bit lost!Quote from Bloc on October 12th, 2010, 05:59 PM Dunno what happened... "Bad gateway" never happened to me before on this server.Quote If you can find an even better font, feel free to share :)
As for symmetry, I didn't have that feeling myself...? Well, at least in my version of the logo, it seems to be symmetric.Quote Wedge is a pun on "Simple Machines", because that's what it is... A simple machine.
However, I myself think of Wedge as the mathematical sign, i.e. "^". Now you know ;)Quote That's really the concept. Want a smooth, beautiful and yet very sober logo that can easily be reused in assets (whatever we do in the future) and shrunk.
The best logo I ever made was the one for "cyna", you can see it at www.cynagames.com --> it's actually the picture of an *elephant* (an Asian elephant, of course), and it still clearly says "Cyna". I never found that kind of inspiration again...
Really, I'm not a designer. Well... I *am* a designer, but I'm not a good designer. I really define myself as a hobbyist, a hacker of sorts. I don't do magnificent stuff -- I just hack my ideas into stuff with a wedge, until I'm pleased.
lol :) yeah, I had to take a break since the server went down.
The wedge isn't symmetric, thats true, its the font actually thats different on both sides.
As for symmetry, I didn't have that feeling myself...? Well, at least in my version of the logo, it seems to be symmetric.
But let me get this straight. A wedge is something to push open things right?
However, I myself think of Wedge as the mathematical sign, i.e. "^". Now you know ;)
So the overlay in W is a kind "can-opener" lol, on the Wedge name? I might try some ideas if I know more about the meaning behind it.
The best logo I ever made was the one for "cyna", you can see it at www.cynagames.com --> it's actually the picture of an *elephant* (an Asian elephant, of course), and it still clearly says "Cyna". I never found that kind of inspiration again...
Really, I'm not a designer. Well... I *am* a designer, but I'm not a good designer. I really define myself as a hobbyist, a hacker of sorts. I don't do magnificent stuff -- I just hack my ideas into stuff with a wedge, until I'm pleased.
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Features / Re: New revs
« on October 12th, 2010, 05:57 PM »! Another silly bugfix from the UTF-8 stuff. (Subs-Post.php)
list($charset, ...) =
There's plenty of $charset happiness to crush heartlessly.
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Features / Re: New revs
« on October 12th, 2010, 05:52 PM »I thought I remembered seeing Opera have a resizeable textarea a year or more ago?Quote Yeah, I remember that... Damn you, Google fanboys!
Then again that would have been during my Star Pirates/Greasemonkey days where I was fudging GM to work on Firefox, Opera, Safari with SIMBL support (thanks to Asgard), so I sorta lost track of what did what.
I'm not using any, though. Vanilla Opera is just right for me. (Usually.)
I bet once upon a time there were more characters in that list, or should have been.
As I keep trying to tell Antechinus, spending time farting around with stupid little changes in the source that doesn't benefit anyone just slows down actually fixing real issues.
Look (if need be, since you're also following these) at what they're discussing these days: (last pages of these topics, obviously.)
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=403149.0 --> Fustrate and splitting monolithic files into many files.
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=404100.40 --> Ante adding jQuery to SMF 2.1
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=400219.msg2815429#msg2815429 --> Norv and his "joke" (?!) about splitting the members table into several relational tables...
Speaking of Ante, I just found this amusing post from him...
Look at the date.
http://portamx.com/topic_1480.msg8657.html#msg8657
Now that he's a dev... Well, let's just say he's had a change of heart. ::)
(And Fel is again referring to self as "the PortaMx corp." :lol:) <PRV>
Also, Ante is a veteran coder, as can be seen here:
http://portamx.com/topic_535.msg5728.html#msg5728
! Removed random support for Firefox and Opera in downloads, they work just fine with the default, even with filenames with UTF-8 in them. (Download.php)
Did you test with older but still supported versions of Opera and FF? I can test with Opera 9 if you ask me.
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« on October 12th, 2010, 03:45 PM »
Yes!! Great stuff :)
Should be a good start. The wedge itself inside the W isn't perfect (its left side is too narrow), and it should stand out more (I think a brighter (and complementary) color than the rest would be important), but other than that it really looks great. My fave is the first one.
As always -- I'm not bad at having design ideas. I'm just really bad at implementing them.
Maybe one day I'll look into this software I've heard about called Photoshop! Seems like everyone's using it ::)
:edit: while the server was running wild, seems you posted new versions... They're good, too!
:edit: Also... Could you try adding the final "." in the slogan? Right-aligning it with the right side of the "d"... Yeah that was the idea. Ahah. I'm crazy.
Should be a good start. The wedge itself inside the W isn't perfect (its left side is too narrow), and it should stand out more (I think a brighter (and complementary) color than the rest would be important), but other than that it really looks great. My fave is the first one.
As always -- I'm not bad at having design ideas. I'm just really bad at implementing them.
Maybe one day I'll look into this software I've heard about called Photoshop! Seems like everyone's using it ::)
:edit: while the server was running wild, seems you posted new versions... They're good, too!
:edit: Also... Could you try adding the final "." in the slogan? Right-aligning it with the right side of the "d"... Yeah that was the idea. Ahah. I'm crazy.