pidgin-cabal

Re: [Gaim-cabal] Status icons again

[Luke S. <lsc...@us...>]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 03:58:36PM -0700, Sean Egan wrote:
> On 9/26/06, Mark Doliner <ma...@ki...> wrote:
> > That's an amazing idea.  I think we should do it.  Unless someone discovers
> > some kind of crazy complication.
> 
> http://gaim.sf.net/sean/xa.png
> http://gaim.sf.net/sean/xasmall.png
> 
> xasmall.png sucks. He's going to redo that icon tomorrow.
> 

I agree, xasmall.png sucks.  I like the bigger one though.

luke

Re: [Gaim-cabal] Status icons again

[Tim R. <om...@ho...>]

Did we ever discuss using a Gaim dude or a Prpl dude for available?

What will we be using the Prpl Pidgin Dude for? And were we leaving him 
a Dude, or making him a Bird?

It has also crossed my mind to just use the user's buddy icon as the 
available status icon. But I then immediately thought that would suck 
because it doesn't look available, or the same for everyone. Although we 
could put some weird, amazing available frame around it. But then the 
buddy icon is still there twice, which would be weird.

--Tim

[Gaim-cabal] Fwd: Status icons again

[Sean E. <sea...@gm...>]

This started bouncing, so I'm going to try resending it:

Also see: http://gaim.sf.net/emblem.png

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sean Egan <sea...@gm...>
Date: Sep 28, 2006 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Gaim-cabal] Status icons again
To: Luke Schierer <lsc...@us...>
Cc: gai...@li...


Today:

The purple orb becomes green. Steven Garrity pointed out that, even in
clients that don't use "boring colored circles" for stauts, "green
light," seems a fairly universal symbol for "available."

http://gaim.sf.net/sean/morestatus.png

New small extended away post-it icon:

http://gaim.sf.net/sean/morestatussmall.png

And new dialog icons. I think the idea is great:

http://gaim.sf.net/sean/dialogs2.png

-s.

Re: [Gaim-cabal] Status icons again

[Sean E. <sea...@gm...>]

This will  probably bounce too, but: http://gaim.sf.net/sean/blist16.png

-s.

On 9/30/06, Sean Egan <sea...@gm...> wrote:
> This started bouncing, so I'm going to try resending it:
>
> Also see: http://gaim.sf.net/sean/emblem.png
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sean Egan <sea...@gm...>
> Date: Sep 28, 2006 2:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [Gaim-cabal] Status icons again
> To: Luke Schierer <lsc...@us...>
> Cc: gai...@li...
>
>
> Today:
>
> The purple orb becomes green. Steven Garrity pointed out that, even in
> clients that don't use "boring colored circles" for stauts, "green
> light," seems a fairly universal symbol for "available."
>
> http://gaim.sf.net/sean/morestatus.png
>
> New small extended away post-it icon:
>
> http://gaim.sf.net/sean/morestatussmall.png
>
> And new dialog icons. I think the idea is great:
>
> http://gaim.sf.net/sean/dialogs2.png
>
> -s.
>

Re: [Gaim-cabal] Status icons again

[Sean E. <sea...@gm...>]

On 9/30/06, Tim Ringenbach <om...@ho...> wrote:
> Did we ever discuss using a Gaim dude or a Prpl dude for available?

Replying now, since gmail-to-sourceforge has stopped bouncing.

The Gaim dude will presumingly not exist in Pidgin, so that doesn't
work. I'm really liking the green orb, right now. I don't know if my
other mail ever made it through, but
http://gaim.sf.net/sean/centered.png is the current state of the art.
I've also sent http://gaim.sf.net/sean/dialogs.png

> What will we be using the Prpl Pidgin Dude for? And were we leaving him
> a Dude, or making him a Bird?

I don't know what Prpl Pidgin Dude means. If you're asking about
logos, we're working with this guy: http://38one.com/

> It has also crossed my mind to just use the user's buddy icon as the
> available status icon. But I then immediately thought that would suck
> because it doesn't look available, or the same for everyone. Although we
> could put some weird, amazing available frame around it. But then the
> buddy icon is still there twice, which would be weird.

Yeah, people have asked about using buddy icons in place of protocol
icons in our current UI. I'm dead against putting anything other than
buddy icons in the buddy icon column, as it would kill scannability.

-s.

Re: [Gaim-cabal] Status icons again

[Sean E. <sea...@gm...>]

Some souce to try out:
http://gaim.sf.net/sean/gaim-2.0.0dev.tar.bz2
http://gaim.sf.net/sean/gaim-2.0.0-0.beta4.i386.rpm

-s.