From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: choice for the new emacs icon Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:22:08 +0100 Message-ID: <85sl05yy4v.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <200802050135.m151ZGDH005052@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87hcgof9as.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <200802060547.m165lAPb003310@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87sl05v61m.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202372707 16852 80.91.229.12 (7 Feb 2008 08:25:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:25:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 07 09:25:29 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JN24Q-0005ox-RF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:25:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JN23x-0002XF-VD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:24:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JN23s-0002X8-KY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:24:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JN23r-0002Wk-De for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:24:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JN23r-0002Wd-6s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:24:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JN23m-0007wf-K2; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:24:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-16.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.56]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JN23m-0003YS-19; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:24:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-19-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-19-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.36]) by mail-in-16.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6C7D1F708A; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:24:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail-in-14.arcor-online.net (mail-in-14.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.54]) by mail-in-19-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C34416BD49; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:24:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-045-123.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.45.123]) by mail-in-14.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74EBA1877E0; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:24:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id E4EFC1C40B53; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:22:08 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:11:42 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92/5723/Thu Feb 7 08:13:01 2008 on mail-in-14.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:88403 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > Juri Linkov writes: >> It seems this is already a long established practice: Emacs 19 has a >> kitchen sink icon, Emacs 20 - a mushroom, Emacs 21 - a gnu's head, >> and Emacs 22 - a notebook. > > Man that mushroom was a real classic... Given the state of MULE in Emacs 20, a mushroom cloud would likely have been more appropriate. The investment into utf-8 now pays off, but boy did it hurt at that time. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum