Brad Bower (ibrad) כתב/ה ב- lj_dev, @ 2002-05-11 13:21:00

please no.
Who is it that made this uh.. wonderful little icon.. that now graces the top of every dystopia page? Who on earth unleashed a thing of such great ugliness? It was a good attempt, but it doesn't do justice to the cause, and really just ruins the whole top corner of the page. Why isn't it just a text link in the first place? Or a little bit of small text, and possibly a small language-related icon, something that maybe looked like a link or a button rather than a pretty picture? In terms of good interface, it's just not communicating "click me" or "change your language here."

Does somebody need to make something for you guys? I know I can do that. From just looking at it I'm very sure it was one of you guys (geeks :p) who made it... heh.

	flood_of_tears 2002-05-11 11:27 (קישור)
	It was requested here by bradfitz. If you have a problem with it, you might want to take it up in a place that's relevant rather than the developers community. (פתיל זה) (השבה לטקסט זה)

	ibrad 2002-05-11 11:32 (קישור)
	Thanks for the link. Relevancy: questionable, but not irrelevent (I at least wouldn't say it's the same degree of irrelevancy as some of the posts around here). (הורה) (פתיל זה) (השבה לטקסט זה)

	Re: flood_of_tears 2002-05-11 11:36 (קישור)
	*chuckles* What, you mean posts concerning "how do u make ur font slanted" aren't dev issues? Jesus, I've been confused all of this time! ;-) (הורה) (פתיל זה) (השבה לטקסט זה)

	ibrad 2002-05-11 11:44 (קישור)
	Well, you see.. there's a Great Continuum of Relevancy, and despite having seen 12395491364anus29304602345 comments to [irrelevant] posts about "post in suggestions" and "offtopic" and whatnot, I figured that I was still fairly relevant, due to the language stuff and since I'm sure all of you developers can appreciate proper interface guidelines. ;) (הורה) (פתיל זה) (השבה לטקסט זה)

	marnanel 2002-05-11 11:52 (קישור)
	*blinks* why do you have an anus in the middle of your digits? (הורה) (פתיל זה) (השבה לטקסט זה)

	ibrad 2002-05-11 11:57 (קישור)
	Hahah, I've never had it put that way... It's sort of an insider-joke-turned-force-of-habit thing. :) Just emphasizing. (הורה) (פתיל זה) (השבה לטקסט זה)

	brokenwish 2002-05-11 12:18 (קישור)
	haha it took me a moment to realise what you were talking about. (הורה) (פתיל זה) (השבה לטקסט זה)

	brokenwish 2002-05-11 11:48 (קישור)
	what language should the link be in? english? (פתיל זה) (השבה לטקסט זה)

	ibrad 2002-05-11 11:52 (קישור)
	Probably not, because it's supposed to be internationally understandable and mean "set your language here." Some english possibly, but I think the creator of the current one was almost there, with the letters of different languages... (הורה) (פתיל זה) (השבה לטקסט זה)

	xenofalcon 2002-05-11 12:00 (קישור)
	I LIKE Mr. User Icon. He's multilingual! (פתיל זה) (השבה לטקסט זה)

	aleriel 2002-05-11 12:14 (קישור)
	It makes little sense, though, if you don't already know what it's supposed to do... (הורה) (פתיל זה) (השבה לטקסט זה)

	xenofalcon 2002-05-11 12:29 (קישור)
	A quick click fixes that problem... It needs to be universally understandable. (הורה) (פתיל זה) (השבה לטקסט זה)

	aleriel 2002-05-11 12:31 (קישור)
	Speaking just for myself, clicking random icons just to see what they do isn't high on my list of favourite passtimes. :) But that said, I don't have any better ideas, so.. (הורה) (פתיל זה) (השבה לטקסט זה)

	xenofalcon 2002-05-11 13:55 (קישור)
	I love clicking random things. You should too. ;-p (הורה) (פתיל זה) (השבה לטקסט זה)

	darksoul 2002-05-11 13:21 (קישור)
	you know...if you just clicked on him and set your language, he'd never appear there again for you (well, at least while your logged in). just a suggestion. ;) (פתיל זה) (השבה לטקסט זה)

	signe 2002-05-11 13:42 (קישור)
	ACTUALLY... I've been noticing that it's not saving my language preferences. :shrug: It keeps showing up anyway. ;) (הורה) (פתיל זה) (השבה לטקסט זה)

	aleriel 2002-05-11 14:06 (קישור)
	Yeah, but what if you decide to change the language again later? For example: I might want to try LJ in Russian (which I speak), but then decide I don't like it and switch back to English. If the icon no longer appears, hunting down the setlang page won't be fun. :) (הורה) (פתיל זה) (השבה לטקסט זה)