Best icon for thread participation?

[[Unknown]]

Alright, first this is going on the folder.... sorry.

Second, it will go on top of the following images:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/Themes/default/images/thread/hotthread.gif
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/Themes/default/images/thread/veryhotthread.gif
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/Themes/default/images/thread/thread.gif
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/Themes/default/images/thread/poll.gif

So - I have two requests.
1. I am not a graphic artist, so I need help designing the icon.
2. For the same reason, I cannot think of a good icon.  Some I've thught of/seen are:
- sound lines.
- glowing folder.
- bullhorn.
- + sign..
- different colored folder.
- folder with a paper in it.
- slightly tilted folder.

Have any suggestions?  Want to help?

If you're willing to do the graphics, please pm me.

If you have an idea for an icon, or like one of them better... please reply here.

-[Unknown]

[Jack.R.Abbit™]

I think it would be interesting to see the glowing folders.

[Joseph]

a little red flag.

[Jack.R.Abbit™]

a little red flag.

hmmm.. interesting... I'd like to see that as well.

[alienine]

I can see a problem with a little red flag... unless its in a column of its own.. the problem is there's so much stuff on these folder icons already.. a little red flag will just confuse the whole icon.

[[Unknown]]

That's actually why I didn't mention the possibility, even though I thought of it, of a red flag.

-[Unknown]

[Joseph]

That's actually why I didn't mention the possibility, even though I thought of it, of a red flag.

-[Unknown]

Then how about following your different colour folder thing and just making the folders of read topic completely greyscale and/or more transparent?

[Acf]

is the old_sticky image still in use?

[Joseph]

is the old_sticky image still in use?

LOL I'd forgotten about that!

[andrea]

Dumb question: what means "thread participation". What exactly is the icon for?

[Joseph]

Dumb question: what means "thread participation". What exactly is the icon for?

It's something we want to add to the icon to tell a user whether or not they have personally participated in a topic.

[Ben_S]

is the old_sticky image still in use?

I'v never even seen that

[andrea]

Dumb question: what means "thread participation". What exactly is the icon for?

It's something we want to add to the icon to tell a user whether or not they have personally participated in a topic.

Aha, thanks.

[Seph|roth]

hmm.. i was still posting about this subject in the original thread in "Feature Requests"... so this is actually a double post

but i've made some icons, just let me know what you think..

[klumy]

@Seph|roth

They are looking very good !!

[Acf]

very nice indeed the icons are very clear!

maybe an eye or a pen icon could be used for participation...

[[Unknown]]

I was very impressed by those, Seph|roth, but... they don't exactly *fit* this theme... somehow... .  They do look good though.

Well... a red flag *can* be used... or even the stupid (dumb imho) dot from vBulletin... I couldn't really care much less, I just need to get the icon ready.

-[Unknown]

[Seph|roth]

well, tell me what you'd like to see [Unknown], and i'll try to make something...

btw, note the size of my icons, they're 22x22... if I make them any smaller they would get too messy, so I hope that's not a prob...

[David]

For now lets stick with something on the current folders.  This doesn't mean a different theme won't have a different look.

[Seph|roth]

OK, something like this maybe?



I know the purple folders are a bit blurry, but I had to enlarge them from the original gif...

EDIT: hmm.. I just noticed an error on some icons on the bottom row.. i guess Fireworks made some pixels transparent, I'll fix it tomorrow evening.
EDIT2: On second thought, it doesn't look like something's wrong after all  Just my imagination I guess...