From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: choice for the new emacs icon
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:49:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85odafurkv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ir0ngqoy.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (Leo's message of "Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:31:57 +0000")
Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
> On 2008-02-17 15:10 +0000, Bastien Guerry wrote:
>>> I don't think it properly reflects the end user polish we have taken
>>> pains to apply to Emacs in the last decade or so.
>>
>> Isn't this supposed to reflect humour and history more than end user
>> polish? BTW, I don't expect the users will deduce the actual design
>> and usefulness of GNU Emacs based on its icon.
>
> Icon actually helps. I always feel that Firefox's success is partially
> due to its icon.
Linus Torvalds once jokingly stated that he considered the success of
the Linux kernel over 386BSD (available at a similar time) largely due
to the cool name people could associate with better than with a
combination of digits and letters.
I have my suspicion that there might be more truth to that than
comfortable.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-17 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-05 1:35 choice for the new emacs icon Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-05 1:46 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-05 1:54 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-05 2:01 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-05 1:54 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-05 4:15 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-05 3:32 ` Thomas Lord
2008-02-05 1:47 ` Mike Mattie
2008-02-05 4:28 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-05 7:13 ` Jan Djärv
2008-02-05 2:04 ` Chong Yidong
2008-02-05 2:42 ` Nick Roberts
2008-02-05 6:18 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-05 6:27 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-05 6:42 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-05 7:01 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-05 8:10 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-02-05 8:32 ` Mike Mattie
2008-02-05 8:46 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-07 1:34 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-05 11:35 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-02-05 10:53 ` Leo
2008-02-05 11:36 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-05 18:25 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-05 22:29 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-06 5:47 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-06 7:29 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-07 3:58 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-07 4:13 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-07 15:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-08 1:30 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-08 2:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-06 8:47 ` Leo
2008-02-06 9:35 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-07 1:44 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-07 4:11 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-07 8:22 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-07 8:56 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-07 9:32 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-07 9:36 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-07 9:46 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-05 4:27 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-05 8:33 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-05 5:09 ` Thomas Lord
2008-02-05 7:12 ` Jan Djärv
2008-02-05 7:21 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-05 8:12 ` Jan Djärv
2008-02-05 8:22 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-05 9:07 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-02-05 9:15 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-05 18:25 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-05 21:33 ` Nick Roberts
2008-02-06 17:54 ` Taylor Venable
2008-02-16 6:08 ` Bill Wohler
2008-02-17 13:22 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-17 15:04 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-17 15:10 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-02-17 18:55 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-17 22:31 ` Leo
2008-02-17 22:49 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-02-17 15:19 ` Ralf Angeli
2008-02-17 15:41 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-17 15:50 ` Ralf Angeli
2008-02-17 17:17 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-02-18 11:40 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-18 13:51 ` Werner LEMBERG
2008-02-18 14:03 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-18 14:10 ` Bastien
2008-02-18 15:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-18 15:58 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-02-18 16:29 ` David Hansen
2008-02-18 18:38 ` Ralf Angeli
2008-02-18 20:41 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-17 16:05 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-02-17 16:16 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-17 19:02 ` Johan Bockgård
2008-02-17 19:17 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-17 18:38 ` Drew Adams
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