On Thursday, March 02, 2006, at 01:40PM, W. R. Wing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 5:56 PM -0600 3/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Ronald> The page looks fine, but it might be better to remove the icon >> Ronald> or replace it by the current MacPython icon (the 16 ton >> Ronald> weight). It's not that I don't like the snake, but some people >> Ronald> claim a lifelike snake will scare some (potential) users and >> Ronald> furthermore the snake-icon isn't actually used by MacPython >> Ronald> (yet?). >> >>I believe Bill has svn access now, so I'll leave that to him to decide. >> >>Skip > >I've been lurking on this list since early 2002 (and I can't tell you-all >how much I've picked up listening - it has been incredibly helpful), >but I feel it is finally time to say something. > >I LIKE the python squeezing the apple. The 16 ton icon is not only >amateurish, it is so indirect an "in" joke as to be inscrutable to >anyone coming new to the party. When I first saw it (back in OS 9 >days) I thought it was supposed to represent Python's ability to do >"heavy lifting" for the user. > >Until, or unless Guido himself officially signs off on an icon that >_has_ to be used - I'd say stick with this one. It at least looks >professional. The 16 ton icon stays until someone brings a better alternative. Please remember that it is not just 1 icon, but a set of them: One each for IDLE, BuildApplet and .py files. Ideally there would also be one for py2app application bundles where the user hasn't provided his own icon. The reason I don't like having the snake on the website is that the icon will not match the icons used by the various applications installed by the macpython installer. Ronald _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
