New look?

Post by **Ceilick** » Fri May 22, 2009 1:20

DSL, while it might be neat to have keen creatures for icons, most of those aren't very intuitive as to whats hot/new/not new.

Galaxieretter, thats a Blorb (keen 6) [Edit: and genius314 beat me to it

]. It never really made sense to me why it marked sticky topics, since blorbs are bouncy, not sticky... But it is a classic icon so I support bringing it back too, along with the berkeloid, ice keen, and I too like StupidBunny's key gem idea.

Bonevelous · Post by **Bonevelous** » Fri May 22, 2009 9:47

Ceilick wrote:DSL, while it might be neat to have keen creatures for icons, most of those aren't very intuitive as to whats hot/new/not new.

Galaxieretter, thats a Blorb (keen 6) [Edit: and genius314 beat me to it ]. It never really made sense to me why it marked sticky topics, since blorbs are bouncy, not sticky... But it is a classic icon so I support bringing it back too, along with the berkeloid, ice keen, and I too like StupidBunny's key gem idea.

I forgot that the blorbs were the sticky topic icons.

I like SB's idea alot as well. It's pretty cool.

Maybe we could have an oracle member for sticky topics; praying if there are new/unread messages, just standing there if there are no new/unread messages.

Post by **tulip** » Fri May 22, 2009 13:57

I can also support the gemholder/gem system for new/no new because it's simple, intuitive and small enough not to stretch anything.

You guys might wanna take a look at the german Keen forum, to see what they have done design-wise, so we don't "copy" anything unwillingly
http://ckfsc.webnwork.com/forum/

By the way, Deltamatic, I wouldn't use the term "iconography" for computer icons, as it belongs to art history (for things like buddha or jesus paintings and statues)

Galaxieretter · Post by **Galaxieretter** » Fri May 22, 2009 15:52

There's a German Commander Keen forum?!
*Bookmarks*

And I thought that thing was from Keen 6 but I wasn't sure. I don't remember ever encountering it though... maybe because I always played it on "easy."

StupidBunny · Post by **StupidBunny** » Fri May 22, 2009 16:30

I wonder if we have any German-speaking members that use that forum...

I also remember that the old forum used frozen Keen for locked topics...I always thought that was a clever way of doing that. The only question with that is how to show read vs. unread.

Deltamatic · Post by **Deltamatic** » Fri May 22, 2009 16:45

tulip wrote:By the way, Deltamatic, I wouldn't use the term "iconography" for computer icons, as it belongs to art history (for things like buddha or jesus paintings and statues)

Aah. I knew I'd heard that word somewhere or other.

Post by **Fleexy** » Fri May 22, 2009 21:37

Here is my opinion on the gemholder idea:

Old -- Full blue
New -- Empty blue
Hot old -- Full yellow
Hot new -- Empty yellow
Locked old -- (recolored) Full gray
Locked new -- (recolored) Empty gray
Sticky old -- Full red
Sticky new -- Empty red
Announcement old -- Full green
Announcement new -- Empty green

I thought empty = new becuase, well, empty is the defualt, and when Keen passes by with the key, it becomes full. Get it?

Maybe the POSTREPLY could be Keen stealing a key from a holder?

Bonevelous · Post by **Bonevelous** » Fri May 22, 2009 22:25

Fleexy wrote:Here is my opinion on the gemholder idea:

Old -- Full blue
New -- Empty blue
Hot old -- Full yellow
Hot new -- Empty yellow
Locked old -- (recolored) Full gray
Locked new -- (recolored) Empty gray
Sticky old -- Full red
Sticky new -- Empty red
Announcement old -- Full green
Announcement new -- Empty green

I thought empty = new becuase, well, empty is the defualt, and when Keen passes by with the key, it becomes full. Get it? Maybe the POSTREPLY could be Keen stealing a key from a holder?

Your idea is basically reverse SB's, just more scpecified. None the less though, that's a pretty good idea.

Commander Spleen · Post by **Commander Spleen** » Sat May 23, 2009 3:40

I always liked the old icon for unread posts, with Keen reading his book. That was nifty. Might be a bit unidy on this forum though. The gemholder idea does sound amusing.

Post by **Fleexy** » Sat May 23, 2009 15:10

Hmm... maybe NEWTOPIC could be Keen planting an empty gemholder?

Bonevelous · Post by **Bonevelous** » Sat May 23, 2009 16:27

Fleexy wrote:Hmm... maybe NEWTOPIC could be Keen planting an empty gemholder?

Maybe. It would need text underneath it, though. What about a new poll? or new PM? Unread PMs? same things?

(I like warming my brain up this way. It's relaxing, and fun.

)

Deltamatic · Post by **Deltamatic** » Sat May 23, 2009 22:54

PMs could be a Mort helmet for unread and a Keen helmet for read.

Post by **Fleexy** » Sun May 24, 2009 0:45

My work for keyholders.

Sorry about pink background, no other unused colors...

Maybe a shrunk

emoticon for FAQ?

Bonevelous · Post by **Bonevelous** » Sun May 24, 2009 1:22

Fleexy wrote:Sorry about pink background, no other unused colors...

Not a problem when the background is made transparent.

Fleexy wrote:Maybe a shrunk emoticon for FAQ?

Maybe... Or maybe a Little Ampton with a question mark on its screen.

Post by **Fleexy** » Sun May 24, 2009 22:21

I would have made it transparent, but MSPaint can't do that.