Icon

ChaoZ · Post by **ChaoZ** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 3:36 am

Just a simple request. Can we have an icon for the site? When using tabbled browsing, having a special icon to identify the site makes it easier to see.

I assume it's not a difficult matter.

Freezer-TPF- · Post by **Freezer-TPF-** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 11:00 am

Yes, a little icon thingy would be good to make OO easier to find in the bookmarks, etc. I have been meaning to ask the same thing.

Peacedog · Post by **Peacedog** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 11:02 am

Obviouslu, we'll probably have something more temporary at first, but I'll get this taken care of by the end of this weekend at the latest (and it looks like today will be a half day at work at worst, so that's good).

Actually. . .I think I have the perfect candidate.

Freezer-TPF- · Post by **Freezer-TPF-** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 4:24 pm

Polite bumpage. And Peace, please make sure the icon is safe for work, unlike your avatar!

Post by **godhugh** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 4:32 pm

Also, I don't think you can still be stealthy wearing that PD.

Beer Goggles · Post by **Beer Goggles** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 11:22 am

Where is that favicon? Boycotting this site!

CeeKay · Post by **CeeKay** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 1:35 pm

Freezer-TPF- wrote:Polite bumpage. And Peace, please make sure the icon is safe for work, unlike your avatar!

Heh, they could always use Vindalous avatar

Peacedog · Post by **Peacedog** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 3:50 pm

It's coming. I'm having trouble getting this to work so I'm having someone check into it. The icon I chose is temporary.

Though if anyone has the old

(nee frowny face) icon from UBB, please email it to me.

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 3:55 pm

Peacedog wrote:Though if anyone has the old (nee frowny face) icon from UBB, please email it to me.

You have gmail.

~Neal

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 3:56 pm

Wow, our avatars should never be that close to each other ever again. Frightening!

~Neal

Peacedog · Post by **Peacedog** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 3:57 pm

Seriously, that's freaky.

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:33 pm

And just like that...

ALL HAIL >INSERT HAILABLE PERSON HERE<!!

~Neal

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:39 pm

Hate to break up the potato/Connery courtship but...damn that's disturbing.

Peacedog · Post by **Peacedog** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:40 pm

Post here if you don't see it (for example, I don't see it). And hail Gedd.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:47 pm

The icon? I don't see it. Should be in the address bar right? But then I'm on IE 5.5 @ the office so me not seeing it probably doesn't mean much.

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:49 pm

Visible on Opera 8.01b Beta.

~Neal

Peacedog · Post by **Peacedog** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:51 pm

Time to upgrade I guess, though I don't see it in any of the 3 browsers, hehe.

CSL · Post by **CSL** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:05 pm

Visible on Firefox

Gedd · Post by **Gedd** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:15 pm

Oddly enough, I can see it in the address bar in FF, but not in the tabs. I'm trying to play around a bit to see if it's something about the format of the file, because I can see the icons in tabs for every other site.

Actually, let me confirm that it's not working globally first. Can anyone else see the icon in the tabs of Firefox?

Post by **godhugh** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:32 pm

I can see it in the Bookmark Toolbar and the Address Bar in FF, but not in the tabs.

CeeKay · Post by **CeeKay** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:34 pm

Well, it didn't show up in IE, so I went ahead and replaced the bookmark for the site and voila! angry seagull!

Peacedog · Post by **Peacedog** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 6:03 pm

I can see it in the Bookmark Toolbar and the Address Bar in FF, but not in the tabs.

Is anyone seeing it in the tabs?

We think that might require some further investigation.

CeeKay · Post by **CeeKay** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 7:00 pm

huh... I just tried Firefox (been playing around with it seeing if I'd consdier using it full time) and showed up on the tabs at first but then went away. I guess it flew off into the sunset

And now it goes away whenever I go to a new topic or forum after initailly loading the site in IE and Firefox.

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 7:04 pm

Also show shows up fine in the tabs and in the address bar on Opera 7.54u (I'm on my home machine now).

Opera rules.

~Neal

Z-Corn · Post by **Z-Corn** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 7:06 pm

Using Firefox, I don't see it in the tabs but I do see it in the address bar...FWIW...

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 7:44 pm

Opera 7x, shows up in the tabs and the address bar, but not in the Bookmarks.

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:09 pm

Blackhawk wrote:Opera 7x, shows up in the tabs and the address bar, but not in the Bookmarks.

I can verify this, and also that it shows up in all three places in 8.01b Beta.

~Neal

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:26 pm

It shows up in the address bar, but not on the tab, for my Firefox.

Sadly, this isn't the original version that more clearly depicted a hawk carrying away a groundhog into the sunset. I fear that one is forever lost to the ether.

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:49 pm

ImLawBoy wrote:Sadly, this isn't the original version that more clearly depicted a hawk carrying away a groundhog into the sunset. I fear that one is forever lost to the ether.

Yeah, this is a "blown up" version of that very icon. (Early on the the GG days I had cleaned those icons up a bit for some black speckling, and I believe Andy implemented them into the forum software. I managed to track down the suitably aged icons off of an archived hard drive in my work PC today. They're pretty legacy. I'd imagine that either Gedd intentionally expanded the size of the icon, or the web browsers upon which it is reproduced automagically expand the size to fit some standard.)

~Neal

Peacedog · Post by **Peacedog** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:07 pm

Well, I might be able to do something there. My photoshop skills grow in l33tness by the day, and I'll take a look at it tomorrow at work.

Alas, I couldn't begin to tell you waht it looks like now. I'm assuming Gedd didn't play with it *at* *all* (no resizing or anything), but I don't know that.

I might be able to touch it up though.

Gedd · Post by **Gedd** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:47 pm

I went ahead and tweaked the icon a bit. It may take some refreshing/cache clearing to get the new version to show up though.

As for resizing, I did stretch it from 14x14 to 16x16, which is the desired size for the favicon file. I might switch it back tomorrow and just fill out the extra space with white. The browsers may be stretching it a bit on their own though.

I'll note that the stretching did not cause the hawk to turn into the frown, it was in the source man!

Gedd · Post by **Gedd** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:49 pm

Ok, and in an odd bit of unrelated news, the icon is now appearing on my tabs in Firefox. I bet it goes away again though.

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:51 pm

Gedd wrote:I'll note that the stretching did not cause the hawk to turn into the frown, it was in the source man!

Own. Up.

Napoleon · Post by **Napoleon** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 7:13 am

It shows in tabs, address window and favorites in the ever-great Maxthon.

Great job, btw

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 9:05 am

Don't know what you did, Gedd, but it looks much better today.

~Neal

Bad Demographic · Post by **Bad Demographic** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:22 am

It shows up for me (IE at work) in the favorites list - but only after I deleted the forums from the list then re-added it.

Gedd · Post by **Gedd** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:39 am

Almost hated to touch it, but I wanted to work the transparency in.

I've also returned the icon to its original size.

Bad Demographic · Post by **Bad Demographic** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:46 am

Cool, I deleted and re-added yet again and now it shows up in the address bar. Some of the time (it's not there in there while I'm typing this response).

Beer Goggles · Post by **Beer Goggles** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 12:37 pm

Appears in Firefox.

Freezer-TPF- · Post by **Freezer-TPF-** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 1:05 pm

Doesn't appear in Firefox for me, maybe because I haven't taken the time yet to upgrade from 0.9.3 to the 1.0 release. I should do that.