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
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