Re: [Vala] Icon for Vala

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 09:58 +0200, Frederik wrote:
> Wolter Hellmund wrote:
> > I considered 4 objects which could be used to identify Vala. All four
> > related to GNOME, or gnomes in general.
>
> Actually Vala is not limited to GNOME. GLib, GIO, Gee ... are platform
> independent libraries. And GTK+ is not equivalent to GNOME either, think of
> Xfce, LXDE or cross-platform apps like GTK+'s origin GIMP. Vala is not even
> bound to GLib/GObject, think of the experimental POSIX and Dova profiles,
> and people are using non-GObject APIs with Vala (SDL, OpenGL, Lua ...).
>
> I personally associate with Vala a (celestial) being of light or some angelic
> being (cf. Tolkien, Norse mythology, Asteroid). Something that brings light
> into darkness.

Sorry but,

I associate Vala with what I think Jürg associates it with. Although he
defends that this ain't true, I still think it is this:

http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/images/games/ValaTealc.jpg

Some more footage:

http://wallpaperspictures.com/albums/scifibabes/claudia_black-vala-1.jpg
http://www.unificationfrance.com/IMG/jpg/stargate_vala_2.jpg

I think the best icon for Vala is this one:

http://www.unificationfrance.com/IMG/arton1092.jpg

And this is the best slogan I ever found:

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/8274/danielvalawallow5.jpg

"[Vala] When I close my eyes, You're everywhere"



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