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Re: Comments about oxygen
by Darkelve on Thursday 08/Mar/2007, @01:24
"or maby use an actual ball of tar."

Ehm... what would a ball of tar look like?
I mean, I know about tar, some kind of greasy dirty liquid,
but I'm not familiar with the concept of a "ball of tar"
and I can't visualize that. So the association would
probably be lost on me.
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Re: Comments about oxygen
by Ben on Thursday 08/Mar/2007, @01:41
You know I didn't actually think of that,

I suppose the closest you could get would be a ball of playdo, with the imperfections http://cookingmonster.files.wordpress.com/2006/04/playdo.jpg

only make it black. and stick a big zipper on the front if its a compressed tarball.
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  • Re: Comments about oxygen
    by jacob on Thursday 08/Mar/2007, @05:18
    Or a tar baby, though that might be seen as racist I suppose.

    A barrel of tar?
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  • Re: Comments about oxygen
    by Devon on Thursday 08/Mar/2007, @05:25
    I don't think an actual picture of tar is a good idea. For those unfamiliar with what a tarball is they would be clueless as to what it means but most people will recognize a box or package as a extracted zip or something similar which is more what they are going for. Obviously this is just my opinion though.

    I really love how the icons are coming, keep up the great work.
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    • Re: Comments about oxygen
      by Matt on Thursday 08/Mar/2007, @13:59
      Then how about a box of tar? ;p
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    • Re: Comments about oxygen
      by Nanaky on Thursday 08/Mar/2007, @14:55
      Indeed, I think it's a bad idea. I am not a native English speaker and before reading this thread I didn't even know that tar was something else than an archive type. Let alone people who don't speak English at all.
      As a general rule I think it is good to avoid icons based on a pun on the file type, since it is highly language dependant.

      And as a user I usually don't care about what type an archive is when I see one. I think it is better to keep all the archive icons under the same format and for example adding the letters of the extension on it.
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Re: Comments about oxygen
by Chani on Thursday 08/Mar/2007, @21:44
a katamari ball! ;)

...but really, um, I dunno. the comment about language dependence made some very good points. maybe the box could use a little decoration... boxes sent through the mail always seem to end up with lots of junk stuck to them :)
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  • Re: Comments about oxygen
    by Ben on Friday 09/Mar/2007, @00:35
    Or just a diffrent angle so it looks like a box and not a doghouse
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