Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 17:37 +0700, 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:
> 
>   http://www.gnome.org/images/screenshots/20000400-jacob-big
>   http://www.gnome.org/images/screenshots/20000518-iain-big
>   http://www.gnome.org/images/screenshots/20000520-ole-big
> 
> I don't know the reason behind this. And GDM also provides a flower
> theme in its stock. Probably, it associates with garden gnomes?
> 
> Anyway, can we use the flower as a secondary logo for GNOME?

I suggested that you ask the Art team, and that you then take their
suggestions to the board.

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