On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 12:52 +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > Phew! What a geek dream! "Angstrom" is catchy word first of > all, and someone don't really need to know what it is ;-). Those who > have pleasure to know that though, may find it an amusing pun > that distro for small system called by the name of small unit of > distance. Full stop here, please. Don't go further with images of > precision measurement, technicalness, industrialness, and other > nightmares of overworked engineers. Because otherwise, it's hard to > stop with that too, and one may vividly imagine page from an Angstrom > manual: > > "As the name suggest, to install Angstrom, you must have > angstrom-resolution ruler ready. Oh wait! There're no such rulers! > An electronic microscope measures such sizes. So yes, electronic > microscope is what you need to install Angstrom!" > > Thought shapes future. If we accept that "current state", that > it will stay that way here forever, and someone else will skim cream > of world domination. > > The logo is obviously is just one small aspect of it. And as I hope > the logo matter will be solved this time, it's good idea to think well > what implications it gives, and what we want at all.
I think you are right to point out the importance of a visual representation of a product. I was hoping there would be a coordinated effort to watch over the visual side of things, similar to the way an user-friendly distro such as Ubuntu approaches the issue, but you'd need some designer folk for that.. I expect most of the current Ångström users have at least some technical background and most/all of them know at least how to file a bug-report, but drawing and designing graphics is a whole other matter. The graphing compass for example, I can draw that because it is made up of straight lines, a fixed design, a technical instrument, I can use logic to draw it. But if I wanted to draw a more friendly-looking graphing compass using (*shudder*) inviting curving lines and friendly colours I'd have a hard time drawing it. I was hoping some artistic person would come along and say "Ah, I see what you're trying to convey, but this style of drawing would be better, and these colours are all wrong, and .." and take it from there. :) Kind regards, Jeroen _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-devel
