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Thread: Gnome Logo - Offensive To Podophobiacs?

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    Gnome Logo - Offensive To Podophobiacs?

    While I do not suffer from Podophobia, I do find the Gnome logo a bit odd. Why use a foot for the logo of a desktop environment? It just seems a bit silly to me.
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    Re: Gnome Logo - Offensive To Podophobiacs?

    my foot.
    that was gnome not ubuntu.

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    Re: Gnome Logo - Offensive To Podophobiacs?

    rofl.

    Apparently GNOME picked a logo they liked without any relevance, I always thought it was an Ogre foot and a joke for a project called Gnome, I play too many rpgs .
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    Re: Gnome Logo - Offensive To Podophobiacs?

    Quote Originally Posted by vinodis View Post
    my foot.
    that was gnome not ubuntu.
    I know it was Gnome. I just find it odd that someone selected the foot to be the logo of the environment. I suppose may the person could have been on the opposite end of Podophobia and had a foot fetish...

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    Re: Gnome Logo - Offensive To Podophobiacs?

    an friging apple for logo?
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    Re: Gnome Logo - Offensive To Podophobiacs?

    Quote Originally Posted by Ek0nomik View Post
    While I do not suffer from Podophobia, I do find the Gnome logo a bit odd. Why use a foot for the logo of a desktop environment? It just seems a bit silly to me.
    Mods .. I think you should put your foot down on this one
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    Re: Gnome Logo - Offensive To Podophobiacs?

    Quote Originally Posted by vambo View Post
    Mods .. I think you should put your foot down on this one
    This thread just tickles your little toes in the wrong way, huh?

    Quote Originally Posted by stimpack View Post
    rofl.

    Apparently GNOME picked a logo they liked without any relevance, I always thought it was an Ogre foot and a joke for a project called Gnome, I play too many rpgs .
    Upgrade your foot armor for crying out loud.

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    Re: Gnome Logo - Offensive To Podophobiacs?

    http://developer.gnome.org/projects/...g_desktop.html
    #GNOME Usability Study Report :: Exploring the GNOME Desktop
    July 2001

    Because they had never seen GNOME before and were unfamiliar with the GNOME logo, several participants did not know what the foot icon was.

    Guesses included:

    "The footprint of the computer?...for traveling or search and replace? Its local, not global. I don't know why its there." (P4)
    "Where I've been before? A history?" (P2)
    "A "footprint" of where I've been or a list of tasks I've performed most recently." (P8) "I don't know. I have no idea what the foot means." (P6, P9, P10)

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    Re: Gnome Logo - Offensive To Podophobiacs?

    Quote Originally Posted by vambo View Post
    Mods .. I think you should put your foot down on this one
    Someone needs a "kick up the jacksy"

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    Re: Gnome Logo - Offensive To Podophobiacs?

    Footprint of a computer? What a terrible guess!

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