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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: PLS: a bit of attn.  Re: spining logo to look at
From:       Chris Lee <nytehorse () inficad ! com>
Date:       2000-03-18 0:01:50
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I like it! I'd like to change it to my default... how?

-Chris

> On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Derek Spears wrote:
>
> > I put it at http://www.concentric.net/~derek/spin.gif
> > It is a 100 frame gif anim. You can't see the K in the middle this
> > small, but I could probably make the contrast a little better on that.
> > Is it something that could go as the new spinning logo in konqy?
>
> Hi
>
> Seems nobody observed this.
>
> Usually, GUI design supposes the light source is placed in the upper left
> corner. This comes traditionally from real life desktops, where one tries
> always to have his/her page illuminated from left front, a bit upper than
> the height of the head/eyes. (Reason for this in real life is that most
> people write with right hand, and don't want the shade of the hand on the
> writing).
>
> Well, in contrast with this, the new logo is lighted from upper right.
> This is a bit strange for the inconscious error-handler of the human brain
> :-)
>
> I suppose it would be relatively easy to mirror the animation so that the
> light sources become consistent.
>
> Thanks
>
> Cristian Tibirna

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