On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Duane Ryan <bailey.d.r@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Haiku is trying to do two things at once: Build an operating system > from ten years ago and build an operating system from today. The way I > see it, there's no real reason to make it <i>look</i> as if it's ten > years old, just make it <i>compatible</i> with ten year old binaries > (a long with the same interface, APIs, etc). So the argument that > Haiku should name its Menu because a ten year old operating system > does for the sake of similarity is not really making complete sense to > me. And not naming a menu because vista does means that Vista has > already done; of all the things that I would have chosen to compare > Vista and Haiku, the menu would be one of the last items I would > choose. And if by making the interface cleaner Haiku reminds you of > vista, then vista must look pretty damn good; Haiku has managed to > take the original UI and make it look Kick Ass. > > So... I guess I just like the interface looking clean. This means less > text overall; I think that a menu labeled 'Menu' is rather redundant > and unnecessary after the first run or so. Anyway, I rather associate > the leaf with Haiku now, though if you really want to associate it, > you're going to have to make some changes to the default logo. Instead > of three feathers, you need one feather, prominently figured. This > will move the feather's status from being an attribute off the logo to > being the center of the logo; the name "Haiku" will name the feather > and the operating system, thereby linking the two. > > Oh dear, I did it again. > > > -- > Duane Why such a big deal about this leaf ? In Vista, it's only the Windows logo, in MacOS only the small Apple, in BeOS the logo of BeOS (which the word BeOS was included in but it's the logo).