On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 6 Nov 2008, at 10:37, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: > >> 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: > > Ah yes. During our GNOME 1.2 usability study, some of our participants > memorably asked "what's the fried egg for?" :)
I see. It looks pretty much like a fried egg, too. :-) > Other than that, a (well-designed) flower might be a pretty good call-- it > has some history in GNOME, and it symbolises all those hippie values that > are shared by the open source community :) Probably, elongating the petals helps? Before: http://linux.thai.net/~thep/shots/gnome-logo/flower-1.4.svg After: http://linux.thai.net/~thep/shots/gnome-logo/flower-long.svg -- Theppitak Karoonboonyanan http://linux.thai.net/~thep/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list