<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">You can understand why an archaeologist would agree and vote for the old icon. I like Stefan's suggestion of a change in color--perhaps aqua?<div><br></div><div>All the best,</div><div>Tom</div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Thomas S. Dye, Ph.D.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">T. S. Dye & Colleagues, Archaeologists, Inc.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Phone: (808) 529-0866 Fax: (808) 529-0884</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><a href="http://www.tsdye.com"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">http://www.tsdye.com</span></span></a></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Jul 13, 2009, at 11:59 AM, Enrico Franconi wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I agree with the arguments below: I do prefer the current icon (#1).<br>--e.<br><br>On 13 Jul 2009, at 23:39, Stefan Vollmar wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Dear David,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On 12.07.2009, at 01:00, David Reitter wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">please take part in our Icon survey - we'd like to get your feedback regarding candidates for the new application icon for Aquamacs 2.0, which is in development now.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">My problem with the new icons is that they overemphasize "writing". Granted, Aquamacs is an "editor" - but it is a lot of other things at the same time: think org-mode or nXML-mode. I am also not fond of writing tools like cheap, blue biros (call me a snob; however, cheap pencils are fine with me). "Aquamacs" as text in the icon does not work well for smaller icons, this is particularly true for Icon #5. A minor point of criticism is the "white circle" in the animal's left horn. I certainly agree with Peter Dyballa that #12 is not suitable as Emacs is no painting application.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Icons #7-#14 suggest some sort of "artist's/college paper block" association. Maybe it is a personal thing, and I am apologizing immediately for this longish explanation - the "ripping things out nature" of these "paper collections" leaves a bad feeling with me and this is because I prefer a "lab-book" kind of document which works like a source code repository in<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">many respects.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I am actually quite fond of the current icon (and I would suggest to change some colouring details there). However, icon #4 is my favourite from the new collection (again, similar reasons as given by Peter Dyballa). Maybe with a different pen (I like pencils!) and a small cogwheel (or similar) to hint that this is a tool for way more than "just" writing.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Warm regards,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Stefan<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-- <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Dr. Stefan Vollmar, Dipl.-Phys.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Max-Planck-Institut für neurologische Forschung<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Gleuelerstr. 50, 50931 Köln, Germany<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Tel.: +49-221-4726-213 FAX +49-221-4726-298<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Tel.: +49-221-478-5713 Mobile: 0160-93874279<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Email: vollmar@nf.mpg.de <a href="http://www.nf.mpg.de">http://www.nf.mpg.de</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_____________________________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">MacOSX-Emacs mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:MacOSX-Emacs@email.esm.psu.edu">MacOSX-Emacs@email.esm.psu.edu</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-emacs">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-emacs</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">List Archives: <a href="http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.macintosh.osx">http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.macintosh.osx</a><br></blockquote><br>_____________________________________________________________<br>MacOSX-Emacs mailing list<br><a href="mailto:MacOSX-Emacs@email.esm.psu.edu">MacOSX-Emacs@email.esm.psu.edu</a><br>http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-emacs<br>List Archives: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.macintosh.osx<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>