From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FTfs3-0001ub-PX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:59:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k3CDx1rY013108; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:59:01 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k3CDv7DX008358 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:57:07 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FTfqE-0005WL-KD for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:57:06 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FTfq8-0008RD-3a for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:57:01 +0200 Received: from ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.97.182]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:57:00 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:57:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Gentoo theming during bootup Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:56:39 -0700 Organization: Organization? Me? Message-ID: References: <4435CDBC.1030801@gentoo.org> <443A85FA.6050005@gentoo.org> <20060410193720.GA10779@dst.grantgoodyear.org> <200604101825.23512.vapier@gentoo.org> <443BCE1E.8030302@gentoo.org> <443C32C2.2070305@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k3CDx1tC013108 X-Archives-Salt: d17ea8af-8793-42ef-81be-b4fd20a3b40a X-Archives-Hash: bfc2a704c5a2218d080516403bcb4fae Curtis Napier posted <443C32C2.2070305@gentoo.org>, excerpted below, on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 18:50:42 -0400: > Jan Kundr=E1t wrote: >>=20 >> 17:33 <@jkt|> drobbins: actually, it has been mentioned in the recent >> thread on -dev ML that you own the copyright or something of the flyin= g >> saucer on w.g.o >> [...] >> 17:33 <@jkt|> drobbins: and there was a questino if you'd agree if we >> continued to use it >> [...] >> 17:38 <@drobbins> jkt|, yeah, I don't care >>=20 >=20 > Not promising a front and center place like he has now but I'll work hi= m > into it somehow or other. When you place it, consider linking it to a history or some explanation o= r something. He's certainly cute and all that, but I've always wondered just what he has to do with Gentoo, having the feeling that there's some symbolism or something that I'm missing. My opinion is that without some sort of explanatory link, all he does is reinforce the already too prevalent idea that Gentoo is just for a bunch of spaced out ricers and fringe users that don't have anything better to do with their computers than compile and recompile all day. It's just noise on the page that doesn't seem to apply to anything else on the page= , and therefore doesn't look professional. Again, maybe I just missed the symbolism somewhere, but that's my opinion. Put a caption on him, make him link to something, and it'll look better. Maybe make him the documentation and help section icon? Or the icon for contact information (Gentoo developer listing, etc)? Something. --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list