Re: New Emacs Icon and Tango

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

Lars Hansen wrote:

>Rodney Dawes wrote:
>  
>
>>On the subject of branding through, I am not quite sure what the best
>>way to do that is. I like the Gnu-horns E on the notepad. I'm not sure
>>that a notepad is the best metaphor for Emacs though, as it does so much
>>more than just edit text. The branding should be strong though, and
>>preferrably be done without having the text "Emacs" in the icon itself.
>>If the icon should say anything, it should be "this is Emacs, a very
>>powerful IDE and text processing solution", I think.
>>    
>>
>
>I agree. I like the looks of the notepad, but IMHO it resembles the icon
>of notepad.exe on MS Windows to much. notepad.exe is no more than a
>notepad, but Emacs is much more. But which metaphor is better?
>Maybe this: Emacs is sometimes referred to as
>
>   "The Swiss Army Knife of Editors"
>
>since it has a tool for every need. But I don't know if it would do as
>an icon.
>
A very important feature of Emacs for me (currently using MS Windows) is 
the portability. Maybe a bag of some kind with the Gnu-horns? (I would 
like a backpack, but that's me and it is too difficult in small sizes of 
course.)

In a bag you can carry many tools and you can move -- to GNU/Linux. The 
Gnu-horns tells where you are going.