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[wxWidgets.git] / docs / publicity / slogans.txt

wxWidgets slogan ideas

CafePress products:

http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/products/


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On mug or umbrella:

super-gui-OS-agnostic-XP-Linux-MacOS

(perhaps highlighted in different colours)

wxWidgets: "Practically Perfect in Every Way"

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On tote bag:

"Bag yourself some cool tools at wxwidgets.org"

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On sweatshirt:

Build an app for Windows, Mac and Linux in a week?
No sweat.

<wxWidgets logo>
wxwidgets.org

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Hallelujah!
The future is open source and OS-agnostic.
Tool up for it at wxwidgets.org.

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On hat:

wxWidgets
Brim-full of cool GUI tools

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On frosted glass mug:

just the logo

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Suggested slogans from wx-users:

wxWidgets: The API for programmers who aren't sheep.
(Robin Dunn)

Better printed on a shirt:

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
 butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet,
 balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying,
 take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations,
 analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a
 tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
 Specialization is for insects."
                                               [Robert A. Heinlein]

maybe stripped down to

"Specialization is for insects."

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The Open-Source, Cross-Platform GUI Framework 
  with Ten Years of Evolution Behind It

I saw this changed to 'native UI' on the website, which is slightly more
accurate but sounds less 'catchy' imho.

.. and templates.

Hmm. I might buy a mug that had, say, a wxLogo and "wxWidgets" (and 
maybe the website URL underneath in smaller type) on one side and 
"Specialization is for insects ... and templates" on the other.

.. only if it held at leat a full half (imperial) pint, mind. Not 
one of those wussy 8.5 fl.oz. jobbies.

That'd be a nice ice-breaker when working at a new client's site - 
people would be bound to stop and ask what it was all about!

.. and how about a nice silk tie (US: necktie) with the logo on ... 
Oh, I forgot, we programmers don't wear ties.

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"I can't believe it's not native"

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"Because friends don't let friends use Win32".

(or MFC)

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Have a photo of 3 babes wearing Linux, Windows and Mac Logo T-shirt with
words at the bottom.

"Why choose one when you can have 3?"

(Mohammad Zubair <mzubair@singnet.com.sg>)

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wxWidgets: Write it once and for all.

Matt Gregory <msgregory@earthlink.net>

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At front:

    Need an API?
      <wxWidgets>
   and get THE API

       C++, Python, Basic, Lua ...

At back

    <windows> OR <linux> OR <mac> ?
                <wxWidgets>  is
    <windows> AND <linux> AND <mac>

where <xxxxx> is the respective logo

Manuel Martin <mmartin@ceyd.es>

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Kevin Ollivier wrote:
How about this for a t-shirt slogan?

One API to rule them all, one API to hide them
One API to bridge them all and in the compiler bind them.

wxWidgets

How about "and in the linker bind them"? That's where the local libraries 
get bound to the wxWidgets code anyway.

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Hugh Gibson wrote:
> > Perhaps a head shot of a Maori with full face tattoo and the
> > slogan "Go native"?
>
> Perhaps the "tattoos" could be various representations of a common
> window control in different operating systems to emphasise the
> native look and feel.

Nice idea. But I wonder where you'll find some volunteer willing to 
have his face tattooed with win32 common controls ;-)

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