From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New Emacs Icon and Tango Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 12:29:41 +0200 Message-ID: <435A1495.2070106@soem.dk> 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129977316 30644 80.91.229.2 (22 Oct 2005 10:35:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 10:35:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , Rodney Dawes , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 22 12:35:08 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ETGhC-0002Nt-JK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 12:33:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ETGhB-0000JH-DF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 06:33:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ETGdE-00085H-CU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 06:29:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ETGdB-00084U-GP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 06:29:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ETGdA-00084P-G2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 06:29:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.99.225.245] (helo=odin.broadcom.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1ETGd5-0003tI-Cg; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 06:29:35 -0400 Original-Received: from pppoe3-ves.broadcom.dk ([212.99.255.42] helo=[10.17.1.154]) by odin.broadcom.dk with esmtp (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD) id 1ETGZL-000ElN-U2; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 12:25:44 +0200 User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20051002) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: <8564rpvov5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 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:44568 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)? > > Sounds as a good idea!