Inspired by a feature request in our forums, and because it was interesting to implement, you can now use a 'signature image' of your PC details and username.
Here's an example of mine:
It will set the background icon to the distribution you have selected, cool eh! If no distribution has been selected, it will use the traditional tux icon. Although I need a bigger version of tux which I will sort out soon. I might use the design Cheese made for that one.
It will only work if your PC info is set to public, I've made sure of that for the people who don't want theirs public for whatever reason.
You can find the information for it on the refreshed PC Info page on your User Control Panel.
This is a first attempt, feedback is welcome to help improve it. I am thinking to remove the "64bit" part, since nearly everyone uses that on Linux now for gaming, and the space could probably be better used for the desktop environment.
I've seen a few different signature images over the years and they seem like a popular thing to use on forums in your signatures, so I am happy to give you the chance to use one and show off a bit.
I guess I should allow forum signatures on GOL sometime, do people want forum signatures here? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Here's an example of mine:
It will set the background icon to the distribution you have selected, cool eh! If no distribution has been selected, it will use the traditional tux icon. Although I need a bigger version of tux which I will sort out soon. I might use the design Cheese made for that one.
It will only work if your PC info is set to public, I've made sure of that for the people who don't want theirs public for whatever reason.
You can find the information for it on the refreshed PC Info page on your User Control Panel.
This is a first attempt, feedback is welcome to help improve it. I am thinking to remove the "64bit" part, since nearly everyone uses that on Linux now for gaming, and the space could probably be better used for the desktop environment.
I've seen a few different signature images over the years and they seem like a popular thing to use on forums in your signatures, so I am happy to give you the chance to use one and show off a bit.
I guess I should allow forum signatures on GOL sometime, do people want forum signatures here? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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mattsturgeon 13 Oct 2016
Ideally it would be provided as an SVG (or HTML/CSS) banner. That would mean that it could be scaled better and read by screenreaders, etc.While I agree the font is a little thin and perhaps not the prettiest, any bluriness is at your end (either your monitor, some image scaling somewhere or some other issue)
That's right; displaying the page at 100% zoom level fixes the blurriness.
On the other hand, it's barely legible for me at that zoom level.
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https://www.gamingonlinux.com/signature.php?id=4944
Last edited by imdan12 on 13 Oct 2016 at 1:06 pm UTC
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/signature.php?id=4944
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Looks good
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Last edited by Qdaxfa on 13 Oct 2016 at 1:19 pm UTC
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Last edited by Qdaxfa on 13 Oct 2016 at 1:19 pm UTC
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sweet nice update! thanks
and yes please. make it forum sig! :)
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Last edited by aurodeus on 13 Oct 2016 at 1:32 pm UTC
and yes please. make it forum sig! :)
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Last edited by aurodeus on 13 Oct 2016 at 1:32 pm UTC
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Please add Steam BPM or steamcompmgr to the list of Windows managers for those of us who play on SteamOS only :) "Not Listed" looks meh.
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DasCapschen 13 Oct 2016
It'd be awesome if we had the Distro's color as BG instead of just grey C:
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do people want forum signatures here?No please dont do this. Comments are are very good to read now. Signatures will just mess it up.
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I don't like this. It's more visible than an actual comment, and it just clutters up the interface, making the discussion less readable. There's power in simplicity.
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Readability could use some work.
Readability could use some work.
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It can easily be a feature I would let people turn off, if I did it.do people want forum signatures here?No please dont do this. Comments are are very good to read now. Signatures will just mess it up.
I don't like this. It's more visible than an actual comment, and it just clutters up the interface, making the discussion less readable. There's power in simplicity.No one is forced to use it.
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Hm. Not displayed? Though it is "Make Public" and the image is on the PC info page displayed properly.
Last edited by Tuxee on 13 Oct 2016 at 2:56 pm UTC
Last edited by Tuxee on 13 Oct 2016 at 2:56 pm UTC
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mattsturgeon 13 Oct 2016
Hm. Not displayed? Though it is "Make Public" and the image is on the PC info page displayed properly.It is currently displayed on the forum, not the comments.
People including it earlier were manually embedding the image into their comment.
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It is not displayed anywhere right now, everyone is manually including them (bbcode is on the pc info page in the user cp).Hm. Not displayed? Though it is "Make Public" and the image is on the PC info page displayed properly.It is currently displayed on the forum, not the comments.
People including it earlier were manually embedding the image into their comment.
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it's possible add favourite controller?
Last edited by fabry92 on 13 Oct 2016 at 6:15 pm UTC
it's possible add favourite controller?
Last edited by fabry92 on 13 Oct 2016 at 6:15 pm UTC
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Okay I am re-writing it to allow me to use ttf fonts to make it more readable :)
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No Slackware logo, eh? xD
No Slackware logo, eh? xD
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