Selecting a Plasma logo

[Sebastian Kügler]

On dinsdag 2 augustus 2016 14:11:25 CEST Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> On 01.08.2016 15:11, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> We've just learned that Anditosan does want to see modifications of his logo
> in  the contest. He is open to modifying his logo after the contest if
> needed, but he'd prefer to modify it himself instead of others creating
> mashups.

Why modify it after a contest? That would make the choice rather pointless, if 
it's going to be different aftwards anyway.

Can you ask him to make the changes and send us the result, so we can judge 
based on that?

> Therefore, Ken's modification (i.e. his fourth) is out of the question for
> now.
> 
> So either we take Andy's original logo (without the > ) and ask for 
> modifications in a second iteration afterwards, or we have to take something
> not  based on his logo (for example Ken's second).
> 
> What will it be, then?


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