Gareee opened this issue on Aug 31, 2004 ยท 52 posts
Tyger_purr posted Thu, 02 September 2004 at 1:00 PM
in my opinion. Each program should have an established recognizable individual unchanging icon of a set size. each should have a diffrent established color so that they are easily sorted visual in the brain without having to read the characters. (You don't have to read a stop sign to know what it is if you see them all the time. but if you see one of a diffrent color, you'll stop and read it every time. Construction/detour signs you have to read because they are all the same color and shape but convay diffrent information) if you have a designated color for each program (and i advocate setting up one for every program not just poser/ds programs) then the vendor can use at 2 to 4 pixel line accross the bottom of the thumbnail to communicate the compatability. i.e. a 4x4 pixel box of a specific color in the lower left indicates compatability with one program and if it is compatable with muliple programs it will be two (or more) 4x4 pixel boxes lined up. The icons should have a designated location. i.e. lined up from the lower left corner of the number one image. this will help customers know where to look and what they are looking at. The best way to do this is to get it added to the marketplace as a required field/check boxes and let the icons load from the marketplaces server lined up in a specific place. if it is left up to the venders i doubt you will see very many using them. those that do are the people who already clearly describe their products.
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