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" -- Philip Van Hoof, freelance software developer home: me at pvanhoof dot be gnome: pvanhoof at gnome dot org http://pvanhoof.be/blog http://codeminded.be _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
