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Re: Cygwin visual brand


On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:39, Gary <> wrote:
> Christopher Faylor writes:
>> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:18:28AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>>>So my questions remain. ?Christopher and Corinna, if you don't think a
>>>redesign is a good idea, then please tell us that.
>>
>> Since you keep insisting, I'll do my usual WJM dance. ?Then everyone can
>> disagree, recycle all of the same arguments, and demand another response.
>>
>> So far, I have not really cared for either of the proposed redesigns.
>
> IMO that's a perfectly okay answer, even if it isn't perhaps what some
> people hoped for.

Yep.  One isn't required to like everything (or even anything) that is
put forward.

>> I sincerely hate these discussions about what's "best" about something
>> visual because it always devolves to self-proclaimed experts voicing
>> their opinions and when it comes to subjective things like web-site
>> layout everyone can be an expert.
>
> Actually there are objective things as well, based on psychological and
> physiological (and yes, even technical) principles.
>
>> ?The bottom line for me is that I want
>> something that I can maintain

To my mind this leaves one unanswered question. Does this discussion
and Chris' response serve as the starting point for requirements
gathering, or is this a flat out dead topic?

Steven

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