Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 6 Nov 2008, at 10:37, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>  
> wrote:
>
> > Maybe you could contact the GNOME Art team. They could make some
> > suggestions. Don't focus on the "Gnome" idea. Few people think of  
> > small
> > mythical beings when they think of GNOME. Unfortunately, I don't  
> > have a
> > good suggestion. Some other form of "G", maybe?
>
> In my vague memory, some GNOME 1.x versions used to use a flower
> logo at the main menu. And after some search, I've found some
> evidences:

Ah yes.  During our GNOME 1.2 usability study, some of our  
participants memorably asked "what's the fried egg for?" :)

Other than that, a (well-designed) flower might be a pretty good  
call-- it has some history in GNOME, and it symbolises all those  
hippie values that are shared by the open source community :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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