[pygtk] pygtk.org mockup

[John Pye]

Hi again,

I think more that anything, the thing that's irking me here is the fact 
that we've got these icons in the "website logo" position on the page. 
When you put *an* icon there, you're saying graphically that "this is 
the site of X". To a certain degree, if we see ourselves a sub-project 
of GNOME, then that would be OK -- lots of GNOME projects take on the 
GNOME icon. But I don't think that this "works" in the case of the 
python icon. And further: to have have *two* icons in this special 
position on the page creates confusion, as I already argued.

Perhaps another approach would be to have them in a panel down one side, 
with some short text explaining each one: that PyGTK can be used to 
develop applications for the GNOME environment or any other applications 
that support the GTK+ toolkit, for applications that you write in the 
Python language.

Cheers
JP

Baiju M wrote:
> On 8/2/06, Preben Randhol <randhol+pygtk at pvv.org> wrote:
>> John Pye <john.pye at student.unsw.edu.au> wrote on 02/08/2006 (13:09) :
>> > 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?
>>
>> Why on earth should there not be a python icon? Can one use PyGtk for
>> anything else than Python? Sure PSF doesn't own PyGTK, but the logo is
>> used to promote Python and show that this page has relevance to
>> Pythoners. However, about logo usage, Panos check the www.python.org for
>> guidelines when it is appropriate to use/modify it.
>>
>> But let me ask you. Why should there be a Gnome icon? Does Gnome own
>> PyGTK?
>
> Hmm...let this not lead to a flame fest.
> All PyGTK users are Python users too, but not all of them are GNOME 
> users.
> But without GNOME there is no GTK and so no PyGTK.
> So let there be both icons to promote both GNOME and Python.
> PyGTK is not just binding around GNOME libraries.
> PyGTK is binding around GNOME and Python Communities.
>
> Regards,
> Baiju M
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John Pye
Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
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