Window Desktop Icon

I_Self_Destruct · June 28, 2002, 11:15

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?

Alex · June 28, 2002, 12:59

This is a bit trivial.

Andreiguy · June 28, 2002, 13:00

lol ya, i think the icon is fine tho

asleepathewheel · June 28, 2002, 13:20

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Originally posted by I_Self_Destruct
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.

Alex · June 28, 2002, 14:23

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Originally posted by asleepathewheel

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.

dunk · June 28, 2002, 15:19

I like the icon.

I don't think it has any pants in it at all.

Carver · June 28, 2002, 15:40

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.

asleepathewheel · June 28, 2002, 16:23

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Originally posted by Alexnm

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.

miccofl · June 28, 2002, 17:22

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I don't think it has any pants in it at all.

None of my icons have pants, in fact they're ALL naked...

MosesPresley · June 28, 2002, 17:50

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Originally posted by Alexnm

Me too. I don't want to pay for a beta icon.

Coracle · June 28, 2002, 20:39

"Pants"? Sounds like a fruity term from London. (?).

Tuberski · June 28, 2002, 21:41

What the he!! is "a bit pants" supposed to mean?

Thrawn05 · June 28, 2002, 22:00

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Originally posted by Tuberski
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.

Tuberski · June 28, 2002, 22:39

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.

Kramerman · June 29, 2002, 01:11

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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.

Kman

foo12 · June 29, 2002, 07:37

Heh. Perhaps this one advantage to the Mac OS X version --- 32-bit, scalable up to 128x128px icon.

Thrawn05 · June 29, 2002, 21:16

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Originally posted by foo12
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.

foo12 · June 30, 2002, 01:37

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Originally posted by Thrawn05

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.)

dunk · July 1, 2002, 10:42

He hasn't come back to explain what "a bit pants" means yet.

Adagio · July 1, 2002, 11:31

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

Alex · July 1, 2002, 13:15

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Originally posted by ADG
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?

Level · July 2, 2002, 00:03

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.

Amesjustin · July 2, 2002, 00:19

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Originally posted by Level
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?

I_Self_Destruct · July 2, 2002, 04:51

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……)

Peace

Kramerman · July 2, 2002, 06:29

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?

Kman

Barchan · July 2, 2002, 08:02

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Originally posted by Kramerman
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?

Kman

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

dunk · July 2, 2002, 08:28

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Originally posted by Barchan

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.

Adagio · July 2, 2002, 09:10

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Originally posted by Alexnm
DesktopX? Isn't it too heavy on system's resources?

Not really, and my computer isn't up-to-date...

miccofl · July 3, 2002, 11:35

I believe they are Speedos – ugly brown… Yuk! Glad my icons go commando!