Harsh, but true. Thanks for summing up :D
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Emily Gonyer <emilyyr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Tobias Mueller <mue...@cryptobitch.de> > wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 09:03:34AM -0500, Emily Gonyer wrote: > >> And, once again, I have to ask, how much different does it have/need > >> to be? > > I don't think any designer would want my advice as to how to make a logo. > > But I am very confident that minor modifications such as using the > Ubuntu circle > > instead of a plain filled circle would make all of us happy. > > > >> It is slightly different already, in Ubuntu's normal scheme for > >> spinoffs - if you look at Xubuntu's logo its a solid circle with the > >> XFCE mouse inside in relief > > I claim false facts. > > The XFCE logo seems to be this: > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Xfce_logo.png > > A full bodied, potentially running mouse in front of an X. > > The Xubuntu logo seems to be that one: > http://xubuntu.org/wp-content/themes/xubuntu-theme/xubuntu-wp/images/xubuntu-logo.png > > It's a (probably the XFCE) mouse's head in a filled circle. > > So the logos differ. > > > >> Kubuntu's is a solid circle with KDE's logo inside. > > The KDE logo < > http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Guidelines/CIG/KDE_Logo> is a > > K gear. > > The Kubuntu logo <http://www.kubuntu.org/themes/kubuntu10.04/logo.png> > > has a split gear-wheel only. The K is missing. > > Thus, the logos differ. > > Alright. So how about this. We chop the toes off of the foot, so its > not quite the same. Will that work for you? Of course not. That'd be > 'bad design'. This nit picking is what makes people hate GNOME. What > makes people (good people!) throw up their arms and say screw it! > Cause' trying to work with GNOME isn't worth it - its far more hassle > than its worth, and far easier/better/simpler to just fork and move > on. As Cinnamon and Elementary have done. Or avoid (whenever possible) > acknowledging that they're using portions of GNOME as XFCE is. > > As Dave pointed out, back a few yrs ago, people who were using only > portions of GNOME were happily included in the GNOME family. But now > GNOME insists on drawing utterly arbitrary and constantly shifting > lines in the sand as to what constitutes 'GNOME'. Its ridiculous. Its > spiteful, and above all its counter productive. > > > > > Cheers, > > Tobi > > > > -- > Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, > power and magic in it. - Goethe > > Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't > matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr.Seuss > > Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that > counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list >
_______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
