But there are lots of reasons not to change it.
The old logo is well known and associated with NetBeans. A little
facelifting, especially vectorize the logo would be fine.
The new hexagon, with something like a cube inside might be anything.
Siegwerk or Liferay, but NetBeans.
Who knows Beiersdorf? But everybody knows their Nivea. They will loose,
if they replace that logo by a new one. Keeping the old fashioned logo
now sells lot more than just a cream.
Usually developers and designers love to re-invent the wheel. But we
shall not forget about the real importance: Improving the great IDE and
platform over creating modern but characterless logos.
Just my two pence.
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Brühl, Germany
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On 07/11/2017 01:09 PM, Christian Lenz wrote:
This shouldn’t be a reason to not Change it 😉
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Von: Michael Müller
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An: dev@netbeans.incubator.apache.org
Betreff: Re: Possible new splashscreen for NetBeans 9.0
one more sibling: liferay developer tools
The old cube is unique - and that is a greater worth than thousand
modern icons.
Herzliche Grüße - Best Regards,
Michael Müller
Brühl, Germany
blog.mueller-bruehl.de <http://blog.mueller-bruehl.de/>
it-rezension.de <http://it-rezension.de/>
@muellermi
Read my books
"Web Development with Java and JSF": https://leanpub.com/jsf
"Java Lambdas and Parallel Streams":
http://www.apress.com/de/book/9781484224861
"Visitors" a photographic image book: https://leanpub.com/visitors
On 07/09/2017 06:09 AM, Siddhesh Rane wrote:
---- Michael Müller wrote ----
Theses are commonly used for other products. I've seen something similar
within Visual Studio and the logo of Siegwerk:
https://www.siegwerk.com/de/startseite.html
Thanks for pointing this out Michael.
The logo of siegwerk is very similar to the new netbeans logo at
http://netbeans.apache.org and the concept is also pretty widespread in modern
designs so you'll also come across many similar logos.
I think we should stick to the old logo for a while now. We can improve upon
it. We currently don't have a vector graphics version of it, so someone can
rework it in SVG or PSD.
Regards
Siddhesh Rane
