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<pre>On Monday 22 August 2016, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
><i> As per the Plasma team's request, I have now created a Wiki page with all
</i>><i> submissions as presented in the forum, and - where available - how they
</i>><i> would look in a Panel.
</i>><i> You can find that page here:
</i>><i> <a href="https://community.kde.org/KDE_Visual_Design_Group/Plasma_Logo_Contest">https://community.kde.org/KDE_Visual_Design_Group/Plasma_Logo_Contest</a>
</i>><i> Each submission now has a number which should be referenced in the
</i>><i> discussion. It would be even nicer to have a completely standardized
</i>><i> presentation, but none of us had the combination of time and skills
</i>><i> necessary to create that. I hope this helps, anyway.
</i>
I'll give a quick feedback on each one of them
1: i find it a bit too generic, with the > iside is better, but a gear reminds
me too much of "options", "configure" or stuff like that
2: as I said before, the concept is neat but is really too generic, can't
really get behind this one as is now
3: don't like it, sorry :/
4: surprisingly all in all, is probably still the one that i like more as-is
(I still find it an issue of looking like 4 disjointed things)
5: missing from wiki, i like it but may be a bit too complicated (and reminds
me the konqueror icon)
6: probably the best one as is now
7: missing from wiki, don't like it much
8: better than 2, but as is now, i find a bit disturbing that the outline of
the planet and the > have very different weights (so makes it obvious that's 2
things patched up), if the > was as slim as the outline, we could have a
winner there
9: missing from wiki, don't like it much
10: looks like it was 1, but with a rendering glitch :/
11: don't like it much, has the same problems as a gear has, but even more
complicated, looking disjointed
12: don't like it, sorry :/
13: don't like it, sorry :/
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While I agree with most of Marcos points, I find (4) the best.<br>
It is imo the most individual and intuitively one I associated with
"Plasma" and the idea of modularity (three dots = widgets/expandable
when needed) and effectiveness (the plain cursor for speed and
simpleness default).<br>
<br>
About the idea clinging to the gear symbol:<br>
I find it distracts from the point to give Plasma a true identity on
its own, so all of the gear variants will imo have people still
associating it likely with "KDE" and not Plasma.<br>
(6) to me personally looks the least attractive, as I feel its more
like a broken or half-finished logo, possibly reinforcing the
idea/perception of some people that KDE software is always somewhat
not complete or ready and releasing beta or "half-baked" software.<br>
<br>
Overall, I would pick (4), as it imo <br>
- works great as a logo (imagine a shirt with just the plasma logo
like nike or addidas)<br>
- looks also nice as a launcher icon (simply white or dark
autochanging without any color around it), <br>
- already brands nicely "Plasma Mobile" (with nobody yet refering to
as "KDE mobile")
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Plasma_Mobile_logo.svg/1024px-Plasma_Mobile_logo.svg.png">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Plasma_Mobile_logo.svg/1024px-Plasma_Mobile_logo.svg.png</a><br>
- looks good even if used tinily as a placeholder for the menu icon
in Window Decoration kcm:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/pbzl085cxz7faoc/plasma-logo-windeco-kcm.png?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/s/pbzl085cxz7faoc/plasma-logo-windeco-kcm.png?dl=0</a><br>
<br>
So its already looking good in those instances, which imo none of
the alternatives would look better or equally well.<br>
<br>
Cheers, Clemens.
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