Best icon for thread participation?

[A.M.A]

@Seph|roth
I really like your Idea of placing the icons in front of the subject .. makes sense, less work (you need only one icon).

[Seph|roth]

@Seph|roth
I really like your Idea of placing the icons in front of the subject .. makes sense, less work (you need only one icon).

Well, this wasn't quite my idea, AMA. Believe it was 's idea...

EDIT: http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?threadid=359

[A.M.A]

still it is a good idea .. I saw your pic here and I thought it was your idea .. sorry

[Seph|roth]

still it is a good idea .. I saw your pic here and I thought it was your idea .. sorry

Ah, now i understand. In your post, you said "I really like your Idea of placing the icons in front of the subject .. makes sense, less work (you need only one icon). " I didn't read it correctly, and thought you were talking about the thread icon. So no need to be sorry, my mistake 

But that idea has already been rejected, although it was my personal favorite too.

[andrea]

Looking at the current participation icons I always thought that the shades are wrong in the yellow icons. Then I realized the yellow icons are open folders, the purple icons closed ones. I think its to much to have an opened folder and a different colour as well. It would be enough to have either an opened folder or alternatively the different color.

See attached image below.

[Seph|roth]

you're absolutely right... but hey, we can all change it ourselves when SMF comes out My hands are already itching to fire up Photoshop 

[Acf]

argh the dutch set doesn't have does nice "new" icons

[Seph|roth]

argh the dutch set doesn't have does nice "new" icons

Maybe that's because the dutch buttons are still the ones form YSE? 

[Acf]

argh the dutch set doesn't have does nice "new" icons

Maybe that's because the dutch buttons are still the ones form YSE? 

yep to bad

[[Unknown]]

you're absolutely right... but hey, we can all change it ourselves when SMF comes out My hands are already itching to fire up Photoshop  

My cent or two: making it yellow stands out, but isn't intuitive enough.  Making it open doesn't stand out, but is intuitive.  Making it do both is the best of the two worlds - intuitive AND it stands out.

-[Unknown]

[andrea]

argh the dutch set doesn't have does nice "new" icons

Maybe that's because the dutch buttons are still the ones form YSE? 

yep to bad

FYI guys: yesterday I started to translate the buttons. The german gifs were posted to [Unknown] some minutes ago. If that translation is feedbacked fine I will continue with more languages.

[Amacythe]

I'm horrible with graphics programs... but another idea could be a notepad and a notepad with a pencil.

[Aquilo]

I don't know if they are going to be changed as well but I made the Exclamation point and Question Mark to look like the folders!

[andrea]

These new ones are loads better than the old ones. Maybe another improvement would be to replace the outlined font type by normal bold type (such as in the huh smiley).

[Acf]

blinking would be funny

example:

[Owdy]

Looks great Alien 

[Aquilo]

thats pritty neat!
it the background fading to??

[klumy]

I like the questionmark icon, too

[A.M.A]

both (Aquilo and ACF) look good.
@acf is that a drop shadow!

[Acf]

yep it is why?? (my question mark does look ugly! it is not made to be used just trown together in hurry as an example)