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Old June 28, 2002, 11:15   #1
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Window Desktop Icon
This is a bit trivial, but............

Does anybody else think that the standard desktop icon (created when you install the game) is a bit pants?

Has anybody created a new one?
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Old June 28, 2002, 12:59   #2
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This is a bit trivial.
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lol ya, i think the icon is fine tho
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Old June 28, 2002, 13:20   #4
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Re: Window Desktop Icon
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This is a bit trivial, but............

Does anybody else think that the standard desktop icon (created when you install the game) is a bit pants?

Has anybody created a new one?
a bit pants?


I don't mind it, though I haven't used desktop icons for awhile (WinXP)

I guess you can hope for the PtW icon to be an improvement.
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I guess you can hope for the PtW icon to be an improvement.
Me too. I don't want to pay for a beta icon.
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I like the icon.

I don't think it has any pants in it at all.
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I think using phrases like "...a bit pants" is a bit pants. I don't remember what the icon looks like - that's how much it bothers me.
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Old June 28, 2002, 16:23   #8
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Me too. I don't want to pay for a beta icon.
no kidding, think of the community backlash if that were to happen. yikes.
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None of my icons have pants, in fact they're ALL naked...
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Old June 28, 2002, 17:50   #10
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Me too. I don't want to pay for a beta icon.
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"Pants"? Sounds like a fruity term from London. (?).
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What the he!! is "a bit pants" supposed to mean?
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What the he!! is "a bit pants" supposed to mean?
I'm a bit pants with that phrase too. I don't want to sound mean but I need some info on exactly what this means.

PS: I think my Icon is naked too.
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If it means "sucks" that's one thing, if it means "cool" that's another.

Either way, I don't have the icon on my desktop.
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This is a bit trivial, but............
No kidding.
I like the icon. quit knocking the icon. Everybody's always picking on the icon.

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Heh. Perhaps this one advantage to the Mac OS X version --- 32-bit, scalable up to 128x128px icon.
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Heh. Perhaps this one advantage to the Mac OS X version --- 32-bit, scalable up to 128x128px icon.
I rather use that Video Memory on somthing else... like my apolyton.net shortcut icon.
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I rather use that Video Memory on somthing else... like my apolyton.net shortcut icon.
Icon size doesn't affect vram usage (really. it's testable.)
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He hasn't come back to explain what "a bit pants" means yet.
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Could someone please tell us what "a bit pants" means? Never heard that one before...

Anyway, you're right, the desktop icon is damn ugly, but at the moment I don't care, since I use DesktopX
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Anyway, you're right, the desktop icon is damn ugly, but at the moment I don't care, since I use DesktopX
DesktopX? Isn't it too heavy on system's resources?
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My dad lived In England for a while, he said pants does not mean slacks or jeans it means underpants, and "a bit pants" means bad.
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My dad lived In England for a while, he said pants does not mean slacks or jeans it means underpants, and "a bit pants" means bad.
So what is the icon, boxers or briefs?
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Pants Explained
Please forgive me for using English ‘slang’, I kinda forgot that this was an international forum.

Some of you were right in thinking that ‘pants’ is a derogatory term used by the English when we think that something is, err, not very good. I suppose the closest term that you Americans would use is ‘sucks’.

And yes, we do refer to underwear as pants and i suppose that if icon was to be compared with pants (literally) it would have to be a nice set of ugly brown Y-Fronts (please tell me that you have Y-Fronts over there……)





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Y-fronts?
I've never heard of that but through logic I believe that must be an interesting descriptive name for briefs, which we lovingly refer to here as, "whitey tighties". I wonder if any other countries have slang names for under wear, or pants as our English brothers call them?

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Y-fronts?
I've never heard of that but through logic I believe that must be an interesting descriptive name for briefs, which we lovingly refer to here as, "whitey tighties". I wonder if any other countries have slang names for under wear, or pants as our English brothers call them?

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Other countries? There's different slang across the US, or so it seems. In the Northeast, they're called "tighty-whities". Go figure....
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Other countries? There's different slang across the US, or so it seems. In the Northeast, they're called "tighty-whities". Go figure....
Or Jockey Shorts.

I guess we could say Homer is wearing pants. I wonder how the meaning of pants got changed between the UK and the US.
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DesktopX? Isn't it too heavy on system's resources?
Not really, and my computer isn't up-to-date...
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