[Camino] Icon's weight doesn't quite fit.

Stuart Morgan stuart.morgan at alumni.case.edu
Sat May 6 00:37:20 EDT 2006


That was my bad; I replied to the wrong message.  I mean to reply to  
David Fedoruk's email that you had quoted (where he said " perhaps  
the name belongs in the credits or even in the About Camino item in  
the Camino menu"), not yours.  Sorry for the confusion.

-Stuart

On May 5, 2006, at 11:32 PM, Michael Watson wrote:

> Remind me never to reply to anything on this list, and just lurk.
>
> I didn't say put any single person's name into the about box. I  
> said give credit. As it turns out, that's already being done on the  
> main Camino site. Therefore, non-issue. If you look closely at what  
> I wrote, you'll also see that I didn't say anything to the effect  
> of icons being "any more important" than anything else.
>
>
>
> --
>
>
> On 06 May, 2006, at 2:20 AM, Stuart Morgan wrote:
>
>> Jasper is in the credits along with all the other contributors.   
>> And given that there are no names in the about window, putting one  
>> person's name there hardly seems appropriate.  Icons are  
>> important, but they aren't any more important than things like  
>> rendering web pages and having a UI that does something when you  
>> click on pieces of it.
>>
>> -Stuart
>>
>> On May 5, 2006, at 6:05 PM, Michael Watson wrote:
>>
>>> Those who take the time and bullets to do icon design definitely  
>>> deserve their time in the sun. Often unrecognized by the public,  
>>> though lauded internally.
>>>
>>> I say find out who did it and give that person some credit. (-:
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> m-s
>>>
>>> On 05 May, 2006, at 8:52 PM, David Fedoruk wrote:
>>>
>>>> In thinking again about the logo, I looked for the logo designer in
>>>> the credits and didn't see mention of the individual. I know that
>>>> person spent some considerable time on it because I remember  
>>>> several
>>>> revisions, second thoughts and more revisions.
>>>>
>>>> The logo is a part of Camino that is one of the "one of" jobs  
>>>> for a single person so perhaps the name belongs in the credits  
>>>> or even in
>>>> the About Camino item in the Camino menu. It is also the single  
>>>> visual
>>>> item which most clearly identifies the project. Even those who  
>>>> do not
>>>> run Camino and never will may recognize it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Daivd
>>>
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