[pygtk] pygtk.org mockup

Yaakov Nemoy loupgaroublond at gmail.com
Wed Aug 2 22:52:48 WST 2006


Hmmm....

2006/8/2, John Pye <john.pye at student.unsw.edu.au>:
> 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.

5 seconds of googling came up with this:
http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/

I get the feeling they consider themselves part of the Gnome project.
But they clearly put their other parts down the side using the
original icons, which IMHO clash horribly.

John: Is this what you had in mind?

Yaakov


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