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On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 12:50:11 -0600 "Timothy Pearson" kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net wrote:
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On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 11:35:45 +0900 Michele Calgaro michele.calgaro@yahoo.it wrote:
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On 12/30/2014 10:12 AM, Alexandre wrote:
What about a bee or an ant? They are both efficient and productive
animals, which was go perfectly with the TDE.
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I'll look at these possibilities! I did some test with the
salamander,
and I'm not too sure about it. It is a
little bit disguisting...
-Alexandre
I am also a bit perplex by the salamander....
Legendarily, the salamander is associated with elemental fire. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamander_%28legendary_creature%29 ) Depictions of it in that capacity often don't resemble the real animal all that much.
E. Liddell
No one liked the heron idea? (*honest* beedback would be appreciated)
There's nothing wrong with the heron either; I think we're just still at the "flinging ideas around" stage.
Yep. Just wanted some feedback; thanks!
I'm not sure the salamander is a good choice; OpenSUSE got away with an iguana but most of the other reptiles are bound to induce revulsion in a non-negligable portion of the populous. I'm not sure about a bee for the same reasons; it seems most people can identify with mammals and birds but not so much with insects, arachnids, and reptiles.
The more discussion we have about this, the more I think there there's *something* potentially objectionable about *any* animal we could pick.
Yes, this does seem to be the case. Let's stay away from known problematic categories though like (at least for English speaking regions) most insects, reptiles, arachnoids, and dinosaurs (the latter due to its negative connotations in the tech world and the inevitable resultant comments on TDE being an obsolete dinosaur). Dragons also are out due to linkage with KDE, but most other animals can be considered.
The phoenix is interesting as I like the imagery, but as mentioned before I'm not sure we can do that without stepping on other toes. Comments on that issue are welcome; I wasn't involved with FOSS when the pheonix was Firefox's logo so I wouldn't know. :-)
Tim