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dw_suggestions2010-04-23 01:33 pm
abitlity to choose a non-default icon for the size reduced icon (as in the navbar)
Title:
abitlity to choose a non-default icon for the size reduced icon (as in the navbar)
Area:
icons
Summary:
My default icon does not look pretty when it is reduced to tiny, tiny size. It looks crappy because I made it with a 100x100 display size in mind, not with a much smaller one. And yet I have to look at it constantly in my navbar. I would like to be able to use one of my icon slots to upload a different picture, one that is already smaller or cropped or that I know won't look ugly at that navbar size, and designate that one to be used in the navbar and in other places tiny size-reduced icons are displayed like when you hover.
Description:
I imagine this could be implemented with a special keyword or something like that, that would tell DW to use this icon as the tiny one. If I don't upload an extra icon, or assign a keyword it would behave like now and use the default.
The advantage is that I could upload an icon that works well at a very small size or already has a small size, but could keep using my regular large default icon in default places that are for large icons, and I would not have to look at an ugly, badly reduced icon in my navbar all day.
The only drawback I can see is that other people hovering over a users icon could be confused by not having the tiny default icon displayed that they may have seen elsewhere, but see a different tiny icon.
OTOH the tiny icon might be recognizable as something on its own, rather than a messed up blob, which especially happens with icons with text and textures that don't reduce well.
This suggestion:
Should be implemented as-is.
19 (35.8%)
Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)
Shouldn't be implemented.
10 (18.9%)
(I have no opinion)
24 (45.3%)
(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)
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