Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

["Luis Villa" <luis tieguy org>]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> 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 always thought that was a fried egg. Huh.

>> 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.

+1.

Luis