Re: New Emacs Icon and Tango

[Lennart Borgman]

David Kastrup wrote:

> Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:
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> > Lars Hansen wrote:
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> > > I agree. I like the looks of the notepad, but IMHO it resembles the icon
> > > of notepad.exe on MS Windows to much. notepad.exe is no more than a
> > > notepad, but Emacs is much more. But which metaphor is better?
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> Desktop?  Some recognizable table top above which the GNU horns are
> floating (you'd probably need a drop shadow to get this across)?
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Could look nice I believe. A version of the x-directory-desktop at 
http://tango-project.org/Tango_Icon_Gallery with smaller versions and 
perhaps a little bit flattened look could be used. Above that I see 
three dimensional horns with a fuzzy shadow on the desktop. (Light from 
upper left as now.)