Thus spoke Jean-Philippe Bernardy: > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Jeff Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 1, 5:57 pm, "Gwern Branwen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> :( I disagree on both points - I actually like the current logo (it > >> has an elegant, oriental sort of feel). And I don't think setting up a > >> 'real' website has significant advantages for us; what does a real > >> website buy us that we couldn't have much cheaper just working in the > >> Haskell wiki? Not much. > > > > The current logo is okay for now, but (and this is very subjective) I > > don't feel that an "oriental" feels makes much sense for Yi.
Well, but it isn't a problem either, is it? I might be biased, because I'm (at least half-) a linguist, but I love the (international-ity of the) logo and it actually got me interested in Yi. > > Other than the name, it really has nothing at all to do with oriental > > countries, and I think of the name as more of "vi" than a Chinese character. > > :) It also works poorly on the Mac dock Although I do use Macs, I despise their user interface so much, I only ever ssh into them; so my comment may be ignorant, but can't we just make a slightly altered version only for the Mac's dock? How about putting it in a circle or so? > > A wiki is great, but I suspect we might be able to integrate a cleaner > > design, more content (including documentation) in a wiki, release > > information, development info, and the blog all together into one site > > that might be more useful than a couple of pages on the Haskellwiki. As a friend of mine once put it: nothing says 'hack me' like a nice Wiki page. As of now, I think Yi needs more hackers than users. Actually, I think Yi isn't really ready for full-time users (at least not the Vim keymap.) > I don't have strong opinions. The way it went for the XMonad team was that at some point someone just did a new homepage, they liked it, and thus the new homepage was brought online. Maybe we could do the same. > I like the logo (hey, it's my baby :), and there is some amount of > "branding" attached to it. e.g. If I can trust the HCAR, it will show on > the Ro/Haskell book cover (amazing :). So, I'd rather see an evolution > of it than a redesign. On the other hand I can see it's > lacking in terms of readability. I love the logo. And I find it very readable. Perhaps we can enhance the colors. I remember that when I first saw it, I had to giggle in hilarity for about 5 minutes. One of my most pressing issues right now is getting the Vim map to be useful. And a Spell Czech, preferably by using an external tool, like ispell, aspell or whatever-spell. Aleks
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