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Re: choice for the new emacs icon
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: choice for the new emacs icon |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:49:04 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Leo <address@hidden> writes:
> On 2008-02-17 15:10 +0000, Bastien Guerry wrote:
>>> I don't think it properly reflects the end user polish we have taken
>>> pains to apply to Emacs in the last decade or so.
>>
>> Isn't this supposed to reflect humour and history more than end user
>> polish? BTW, I don't expect the users will deduce the actual design
>> and usefulness of GNU Emacs based on its icon.
>
> Icon actually helps. I always feel that Firefox's success is partially
> due to its icon.
Linus Torvalds once jokingly stated that he considered the success of
the Linux kernel over 386BSD (available at a similar time) largely due
to the cool name people could associate with better than with a
combination of digits and letters.
I have my suspicion that there might be more truth to that than
comfortable.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: choice for the new emacs icon, (continued)
- Re: choice for the new emacs icon, Bastien Guerry, 2008/02/17
- Re: choice for the new emacs icon, David Kastrup, 2008/02/17
- Re: choice for the new emacs icon, Johan Bockgård, 2008/02/17
- Re: choice for the new emacs icon, David Kastrup, 2008/02/17
- Re: choice for the new emacs icon, Bastien Guerry, 2008/02/17
- RE: choice for the new emacs icon, Drew Adams, 2008/02/17
- Re: choice for the new emacs icon, Leo, 2008/02/17
- Re: choice for the new emacs icon,
David Kastrup <=
- RE: choice for the new emacs icon, Drew Adams, 2008/02/17