[pygtk] pygtk.org mockup

[John Pye]

Well I agree that it's cool to be using Python. But there is a 
difference between saying "hey, we use this language and it's cool" and 
then putting the icon in the top-left corner of a website. Usually, the 
top left corner is where people expect to see something that tells them 
there they are, not a series of scout badges.

Having the icon where it is suggests that we're somehow under the 
control of python.org, or perhaps we're a joint venture between the 
python and gnome teams, or whatever. There's no other logo in to the 
page, so perhaps it's the PyGTK logo? I think is just not clear what 
it's saying and doing on the page.

The GNOME icon on the other hand I can accept, because in my mind PyGTK 
is somehow a sub-project of GNOME, so the "this is our logo" and 
ownership ideas apply.

JP

Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
> I disagree...
>
> 2006/8/2, John Pye <john.pye at student.unsw.edu.au>:
>> Third, I don't think there should be a Python icon in pride of place in
>> the top left. Python is relevant but it in no way 'owns' PyGTK any more
>> than GNU owns a project that employs the GCC compiler. The icon also
>> doesn't mean anything except to people who already know what it is. How
>> about just a hyperlink from the text in the green 'intro' box?
>
> One feature of PyGTK over another set of bindings is that we're smart
> enough to be using Python.  I think that is pretty important in it of
> itself.  It's something that sets it apart from just using vanilla GTK
> with plain old C code.
>
> Yaakov
>

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John Pye
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