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klasodeth Trandoshan
Joined: 03 Mar 2008
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Posted: Aug 18, 2008 03:39 Post subject: Icons for Stickies and Announcements |
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Is there any way to increase the contrast between the icons used to indicate stickies and announcements with new posts versus the icons used to indicate stickies and announcements that have no new posts? Right now the color difference is slight enough that I find it hard to spot updated topics. Fortunately this is not a problem with regular topics. For ordinary threads, the difference is very obvious.
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The MAZZTer Death Star
Joined: 25 Sep 2003
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Posted: Aug 18, 2008 03:45 Post subject: |
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I just look for the little
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klasodeth Trandoshan
Joined: 03 Mar 2008
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Posted: Aug 18, 2008 05:03 Post subject: |
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Unfourtunately, that icon also suffers from the same problem I'm talking about with the stickies and announcement. If I'm clicking on threads that I don't already know have new posts, how is an even smaller low-contrast icon going to help? Sure I can see the difference if there's no glare whatsoever on my screen and my monitor is oriented just right. But it would be nice if there was more of a difference.
Old - New
...compared to...
Old - New
The latter example is especially nice, because not only is there a significant brightness difference, but the icon even pulses when there are new posts.
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Weregoose Gamorrean
Joined: 05 May 2008
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The MAZZTer Death Star
Joined: 25 Sep 2003
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Posted: Aug 18, 2008 19:45 Post subject: |
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LCD monitors ftw
Also the white page never appears in THREAD INDEXES, only on individual posts, which I wasn't talking about. Its counterpart new-post icon is not the one I posted either... no arrow on that one.
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klasodeth Trandoshan
Joined: 03 Mar 2008
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Fenwar Admiral Ackbar
Joined: 15 Sep 2003
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Posted: Aug 19, 2008 19:45 Post subject: |
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Personally I've always used the "View posts since last visit" facility but it's true those icons are a bit rubbish.
IIRC the little folder icons (with proper contrast between red and yellow) are the ones we brought over from our old UBB. The others are default phpBB icons meant to be viewed against a white background.
If anyone is willing to knock together some appropriate gifs - same size and filenames as the images klasodeth has posted - I'd be quite happy to replace them.
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