Re: [Gretl-users] new in CVS

On Mon, 6 Oct 2014, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: > On Sun, 5 Oct 2014, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: > >> On Sun, 5 Oct 2014, Allin Cottrell wrote: >> >>> I like all these ideas. Can you suggest what might be a good icon for the >>> command log? >> >> I don't remember which program it was, but I distintly recall that some >> software used to have a wooden log for that. Would it be too much of a lame >> geek in-joke (untranslatable, by the way)? If we could find an alternative, >> I'd be relieved. But OTOH I can't think of anything suitable. > > How about a quill? In my mind, it conjures up images of the captain's log. > Something like this: > > http://www.clipartpanda.com/categories/quill-and-paper-clipart Ah, that looks like it might work. The "wooden log" icon was used by gnome-logs at one point, but was severely frowned upon by the gnome Human Interface Guidelines people, understandably! (Much as I like Peter's USS Enterprise idea, it seems at too much of a remove: Ship -> Captain -> Captain's log -> log. A bit like Cockney rhyming slang but lacking the shared culture!) Allin _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users