Mascot for KDevelop

Ivan Hawkes linuxgroupie at ivanhawkes.com
Thu Jan 4 01:26:49 UTC 2001


On Thursday 04 January 2001  1:11 am, you wrote:
> Ivan Hawkes wrote:
> > Hey guys,

> Yes. Due to the fact that KDevelop is a part of KDE - and now shipping
> with KDE - you should consider taking the Konqui.There´s a
> konquisdk.tar.gz on ftp.kde.org that contains all the gfx or whatever
> these files are called the artists use. Then put Konqui into a kind of
> programmers outfit -coffee mug, cigarette, something like that (which is
> at least how it looks like here ;-)

It's coming down now...

> The panda would be cool indeed but it´s really hard to make a mascot
> convincable if it´s extra for kdevelop- people now know konqui and it
> would fit us much more into the picture of KDE in general. My point of
> view here is that art sells off besides the quality of kdevelop in the
> end so that we can protect and widen the use of kdevelop as the standard
> IDE not only for KDE but for C++ as well. Within the next year we´ll get
> some competition with Kylix and other stuff so if our efforts should
> make sense we should use the time we have left ;-) It´s not about making
> money but showing that a free project can do as good as a commercial
> one, just like KOffice which still has a long way to go.

Why stop with just coffee mugs. How about a KDevelop 2.0 book when it's all 
finished up. Everyone else is doing it ;->

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