Re: [Commons-l] Nice icons...

2010-10-11 Thread Paul Houle
On 10/7/2010 6:09 PM, Andrew Gray wrote: Booksellers is obviously a bigger pool than social networking sites or microblogging services or what have you, but I can certainly see Paul's point here that it's opening us up to a lot of potential hassle, and a lot of fuss from people who have very

Re: [Commons-l] Nice icons...

2010-10-10 Thread Casey Brown
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 11:41 AM, bawolff bawolff...@gmail.com wrote: I personally think the icons are really cool and a nice addition. However, when we were discussing them on #wikinews, we noticed that news trust [1] was one of the icons (presumably because the equivalent wikinews template

[Commons-l] Nice icons...

2010-10-09 Thread bawolff
I personally think the icons are really cool and a nice addition. However, when we were discussing them on #wikinews, we noticed that news trust [1] was one of the icons (presumably because the equivalent wikinews template has it). Thats a rather specialized site for sharing news articles. I don't

Re: [Commons-l] Nice icons...

2010-10-07 Thread Liam Wyatt
On 7 October 2010 01:55, Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 10/6/10 4:44 PM, Krinkle wrote: The clear icons to the right were better in my opinion without being disturbing or overwhelming. What is the motivation / reason for the change ? Taking in account that the

Re: [Commons-l] Nice icons...

2010-10-07 Thread Magnus Manske
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 October 2010 01:55, Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 10/6/10 4:44 PM, Krinkle wrote: The clear icons to the right were better in my opinion without being disturbing or overwhelming. What is the

Re: [Commons-l] Nice icons...

2010-10-07 Thread Krinkle
Op 7 okt 2010, om 10:05 heeft Magnus Manske het volgende geschreven: On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 October 2010 01:55, Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 10/6/10 4:44 PM, Krinkle wrote: The clear icons to the right were better

Re: [Commons-l] Nice icons...

2010-10-07 Thread Andrew Gray
On 7 October 2010 09:05, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: By popular demand here :-) I have re-enabled the larger top/side icons. It is easy to switch back and forth between them. Maybe a user option? Or would that be overkill? I'm all in favour of keeping them on the left,

Re: [Commons-l] Nice icons...

2010-10-07 Thread Paul Houle
On 10/6/2010 9:55 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: Yeah, that had its uses, so why was that removed? Deemed annoying? I've tried to research what's the best way to do share this buttons and there isn't any clear data or consensus on this. Collapsing the various share icons into one popup is

Re: [Commons-l] Nice icons...

2010-10-07 Thread Krinkle
As for the inconsistency in the icons (eg. not the same 'style'). I'll see if I can find alternatives all from one set tomorrow (or anyone else feel free to propose or edit yourself): eg. pick one of the below: * http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tango_project *

Re: [Commons-l] Nice icons...

2010-10-07 Thread Andrew Gray
On 7 October 2010 14:23, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: Main reason being that, although the buttons are highly useful (and I can't imagine any big usercase in which they would be unwanted), so aside from that they are also in a very visible area that lots of scripts, tools and

Re: [Commons-l] Nice icons...

2010-10-07 Thread Krinkle
Op 7 okt 2010, om 21:34 heeft Andrew Gray het volgende geschreven: On 7 October 2010 14:23, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: Main reason being that, although the buttons are highly useful (and I can't imagine any big usercase in which they would be unwanted), so aside from that they

[Commons-l] Nice icons...

2010-10-06 Thread Paul Houle
I was just browsing wikimedia.org and saw some new icons on the side of the image on: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marmolejo_summit_cone_on_the_edge_of_collapsed_caldera_close_up_chile_rm.jpg These say Download, Use this file, etc... They look really nice and I think they're a

Re: [Commons-l] Nice icons...

2010-10-06 Thread Magnus Manske
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Paul Houle p...@ontology2.com wrote:  I was just browsing wikimedia.org and saw some new icons on the side of the image on: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marmolejo_summit_cone_on_the_edge_of_collapsed_caldera_close_up_chile_rm.jpg These say Download,  

Re: [Commons-l] Nice icons...

2010-10-06 Thread Krinkle
Op 6 okt 2010, om 22:24 heeft Magnus Manske het volgende geschreven: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Paul Houle p...@ontology2.com wrote: I was just browsing wikimedia.org and saw some new icons on the side of the image on:

Re: [Commons-l] Nice icons...

2010-10-06 Thread Casey Brown
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: The clear icons to the right were better in my opinion without being disturbing or overwhelming. What is the motivation / reason for the change ? Taking in account that the UsabilityInitiative had a similar design; like the

Re: [Commons-l] Nice icons...

2010-10-06 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
On 10/6/10 4:44 PM, Krinkle wrote: The clear icons to the right were better in my opinion without being disturbing or overwhelming. What is the motivation / reason for the change ? Taking in account that the UsabilityInitiative had a similar design; like the one you had for a few days (the