Selecting a Plasma logo

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On 26.07.2016 18:21, Ivan Čukić wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen
> <admin at leinir.dk> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 26 July 2016 15:52:41 BST Sebastian Kügler wrote:
>>>> bridge to the current logo.
>>> I quite like that one indeed.
>> Quite keen on that one, yes :)
> It is one of my other favs, behind alex-kver-v2.
>
> But I don't give it a +1 on the 'bridge to the current logo' since
> /that/ Plasma logo is largely unknown (I'd give it +0.5 on that note -
> while v2 gets both +0.5 because of the recognizable KDE logo, and +0.5
> for the current plasma 5 logo). :)
>
> Cheers,
> Ivan
So, it looks like there are two variants which people are quite fond of,
Ken's modifications of Andy's logo (his fourth), and of Alex's logo (his second).

The second has the advantage that it has elements of the KDE logo in it and
can therefore be associated with KDE most easily,
whereas the fourth has a clearer association with a sun, and its simplicity
allows for easy adaptation for different contexts while keeping its identity
easily recognizable.

The disadvantages of the second one are that the gears become a bit muddled
in small sizes and it resembles the gear which is often used as a settings icon,
the disadvantage of the fourth is that it vaguely resembles a speech bubble,
reminding some people of an IM application logo.

The VDG clearly favors Anditosan's logo, so Ken's fourth (which fixes the
problem of being too "generic" as some of the Plasma team members
feared) looks like the one which would sit best with both the VDG and the
Plasma team.

Therefore I'd like to propose to go with Ken's modification of Andy's logo
(perhaps with one more round of fine-tuning by the VDG before shipping it).
Are there any objections to that?

Cheers,
Thomas