Ron Oussoren writes: > The 16 ton icon stays until someone brings a better alternative.
W. R. Wing writes: > 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. I agree with Wing. So there *is* a better alternative, and there's now a MacPython.icns file at http://bill.janssen.org/mac/MacPython.icns with the snake wrapped around the Apple. Feel free to use it where it fits. But Ron objects: > The page looks fine, but it might be better to remove the icon or > replace it by the current MacPython icon (the 16 ton weight). The 16-ton weight screams "done by amateurs for a toy computer". The sooner it's stamped out, the better. And further explains: > It's not that I don't like the snake, but some people claim a > lifelike snake will scare some (potential) users and furthermore the > snake-icon isn't actually used by MacPython (yet?). As we know, some people will claim anything. The snake/apple icon is all over the MacPython pages, that's where it comes from. The new Python web site has finally switched to a snake-based logo, as well. As for scaring users: I feel sympathy for folks who have pathological fears of almost anything, including drawings of snakes. I think, though, it might be kinder to repel those folks immediately, rather than helping them overcome their incipient nausea at the very idea of a language called "Python", and getting to use it. Such use might cause a nasty amount of subconscious angst, expressed in -- who knows -- continuous nightmares? Random acts of violence? Surely better to act up front! More snakes on the web page! Bill _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
