From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New Emacs Icon and Tango Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 12:38:49 +0200 Message-ID: <435A16B9.6070009@student.lu.se> References: <1129908768.17607.6.camel@nuitari.boston.ximian.com> <435A0153.1000106@soem.dk> <435A06C7.80006@student.lu.se> <8564rpvov5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129977555 31118 80.91.229.2 (22 Oct 2005 10:39:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 10:39:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lars Hansen , Rodney Dawes , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 22 12:39:11 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ETGmI-0003JV-MU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 12:39:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ETGmI-0001c2-5J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 06:39:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ETGm5-0001bx-2f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 06:38:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ETGm3-0001bl-Hk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 06:38:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ETGm3-0001bi-7J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 06:38:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.98] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ETGm2-0004T7-Km; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 06:38:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 4349BB86002E3F27; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 12:38:49 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: <8564rpvov5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:44569 Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: >Lennart Borgman writes: > > > >>Lars Hansen wrote: >> >> >> >>>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? >>> >>> > >Desktop? Some recognizable table top above which the GNU horns are >floating (you'd probably need a drop shadow to get this across)? > > Could look nice I believe. A version of the x-directory-desktop at http://tango-project.org/Tango_Icon_Gallery with smaller versions and perhaps a little bit flattened look could be used. Above that I see three dimensional horns with a fuzzy shadow on the desktop. (Light from upper left as now.)