Desktop menu - new category

Rodney Dawes dobey.pwns at gmail.com
Fri Apr 11 12:02:01 PDT 2008


On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 23:31 +0200, Jakob Petsovits wrote:
> On Thursday, 10. April 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 April 2008, jmehdi wrote:
> > > > Hi Mehdi,
> > > >
> > > > Out of curiosity, what software are you thinking of having in
> > > > there? :)
> > >
> > > Softwares used to study the Quran and Hadiths (words of the prophet
> > > Muhammed), to display prayer times, to display du'a (supplications) etc.
> >
> > there are also similar applications for the Christian faith (e.g.
> > BibleTime) that would probably fit into the same category.
> 
> Just a minor note, but still...
> I'm wondering which menu icon metaphor would be appropriate for a set of 
> applications that covers very different and mutually exclusive world views.

Actually, the globe icon would probably be best for this, while some other
icon would be much better for Network/Internet, as this actually has to do
with the view and creation of the Earth, where the Network/Internet categories
have nothing to do specifically with the Earth, aside from the fact that all current
users of it, originated here. :)

-- dobey




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