Re: best gnome globe icon ever

[Francis Whittle <fudje phreaker net>]

I have one gripe with that globe (in fact just about any globe that is 
drawn in a circle).

It's like this:  Whenever anyone wants to draw a symbol of 'the whole 
world' they think "hey let's draw a globe in a circle" and then go 
about it, invariably including only a half of the world in there (in 
fact about 5 sixths is more normal - and this one is not an exception - 
because people rarely get the perspective correct.  The Atlantic Ocean 
is not that big.  Nor is America, Europe, or Africa.)
The point is it's always the part of the globe that includes *their* 
part and maybe America (Actually I must congratulate free software 
artists who live in America because I haven't yet seen any free 
software art globes with just America in them but that's what normally 
happens elsewhere).  I have no idea how Australians get that idea 
because in contrast to the Atlantic, the Pacific Ocean *is* that big.
Getting to the point know, I think it's fair to say that we should try 
harder to use something that includes the *whole* world instead of just 
someone's favourite hemisphere.  The are various ways of acheiving this 
- transparency is an arty one (although the light tricks that make it 
appear as either side is on top aren't really usable in compliance with 
HIG - or even in something that small), also those mappings that have 
the whole world flattened into a sort of ellipse (They have a name but 
I can't recall it).  Or we could pretend that we're members of the flat 
earth society and have a disk instead, but I don't think that would be 
very popular.

Just some thoughts.

Francis

On 2003.06.23 18:08, Alex Combas wrote:
> This globe blows them all away imho.
> Nicest globe I have EVER seen, period.
>
> Lapo, this is art. Thank you. :)
>
> ~Alex