Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

["Theppitak Karoonboonyanan" <thep linux thai net>]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Calum Benson <Calum Benson sun com> wrote:
>
> On 6 Nov 2008, at 10:37, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote:
>
>> 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?" :)

I see. It looks pretty much like a fried egg, too. :-)

> 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 :)

Probably, elongating the petals helps?

Before:
  http://linux.thai.net/~thep/shots/gnome-logo/flower-1.4.svg

After:
  http://linux.thai.net/~thep/shots/gnome-logo/flower-long.svg

-- 
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
http://linux.thai.net/~thep/