User talk:8go
Yay welcome!
Hi 8go, welcome to the wiki! And thanks for contributing :) --MiltonPusser (talk) 15:58, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
Icon request
Hey 8go, thanks for all your contributions. Since you made the logo, I hope you can help me with the following.
Do you know the for-dummies books? They often have these "info boxes" showing alerts, code samples and all ( this kind of stuff: https://i.imgur.com/70TLUaF.jpg ) .
I want to make boxes on the wiki too:
- Alerts
- Information
- Side Note
- Please-help-box
Do you think you can make/find icons for this? Is this something you would want to do? --MiltonPusser (talk) 15:17, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
I had a first glance: First idea that comes to my mind. We could use FontAwesome. Somewhere we have to state that the 4 icons are under CC BY license. (An alternative to FontAwesome is https://ionicons.com/ and there are many more on Github, also Android Material, etc.) If needed we can modify the icons slightly to make them even more uniform, e.g. putting a light gray background box around them.
- Alerts
https://fontawesome.com/icons/exclamation-triangle?style=solid
- Information
https://fontawesome.com/icons/info-circle?style=solid
- Side Note
https://fontawesome.com/icons/receipt?style=solid https://fontawesome.com/icons/comments?style=solid
- Please-help-box
https://fontawesome.com/icons/question-circle?style=solid https://fontawesome.com/icons/hands-helping?style=solid https://fontawesome.com/icons/tools?style=solid
Or play around yourself on https://fontawesome.com/icons?d=gallery&q=receipt. Do not choose "PRO" icons as they are $.
If need be, I can take the SVGs and convert them into PNG or other formats. What is your preferred format? SVG usually is the best quality. How do you want to move forward? I just pick the 4 I like best and send you 4 SVGs? You pick yourself? Which color do you want? Do you want a background? E.g. a light colored square?
Sounds good, nice find! I am fine with you picking a set, you know your way around. I just enabled uploading SVG :) --MiltonPusser (talk) 21:47, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
I uploaded 2 sets:
- Set 1: simple, no text, just icon, just black
- Set 2: with text, in color
Examples
Lorem ipsum
Lorem ipsum
Lorem ipsum
Lorem ipsum
Testing PNGs now:
Lorem ipsum
Lorem ipsum
Lorem ipsum
Lorem ipsum
During the upload of the SVG files there was this error: "Error creating thumbnail: /bin/bash: convert: command not found". That means that the package "imagemagick" is not installed.
When I looked at this page, a page where the icons are used, I got this error: "Error creating thumbnail: /bin/bash: convert: command not found". Same, package "imagemagick" is not installed.
Same error also without "thumb" attribute.
And on last test, without any attributes, the same error. Looks like package "imagemagick" MUST be installed for SVGs to work.
Since SVGs did not work right out of the box, I created also a 3rd set of PNGs.
Great, you installed imagemagick. Excellent!
Yeah just installed ;). Are you on Telegram? Ping me @* ;) . We do not need aliases now, next step is making the infoboxes (templates) I think :).
Like this, but with icons: https://lightningwiki.net/index.php?title=Template:TODO&action=edit .
I can look at it, too? Great work so far! --MiltonPusser (talk) 14:41, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
https://lightningwiki.net/index.php/Sandbox did some testing... Not 100% happy yet. --MiltonPusser (talk) 14:55, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
sorry, no telegram, no chat.
made some minor changes to Sandbox. In particular I found the icon too small and hence the text unreadable. If you prefer a smaller icon, then I suggest to use icons without the text. I just made the icon bigger.
Looks GREAT, like your CSS. This size is just fine! Do you feel like creating the other templates as well?
Maybe you can come up with different (soft) background colors, maybe a light red for alerts. Thank you!! --MiltonPusser (talk) 06:10, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
Icons / infoboxes
The TODO --> HELP box looks good! Exactly what I hoped for --MiltonPusser (talk) 14:53, 27 February 2019 (UTC)