New idea for Plasma's logo

[Alessandro Longo]

Il 02-06-2016 20:47 Ken Vermette ha scritto:

> On a side note, like Thomas, I'm a little leery of the fact that
> you've seemingly bypassed the VDG main channel. I've done stupid
> things like that too (much more publicly) and I've learned that
> consulting with peers is important before moving up the chain with an
> idea.

I didn't bypassed the VDG channel, I sent the email to visual-design 
mailing list, I wanted to discuss there but also make plasma-devel 
subscribers aware of it... (looking into MLs it looks to me a good 
practice, sorry). Nobody replied into visual-design ml... Then Thomas 
informed me that my email wasn't sent into plasma-dev (but it was on 
visual-design since some days, I'm pretty sure about that). So OK if you 
didn't see that, no problem. But please don't say I bypassed VDG. 
Recently the VDG "officially" said that KDE logo has to be replaced by 
Plasma one (in a bug report iirc) and someone replied that the VDG 
should discuss this with Plasma team, since the topic is really 
important. So I think I did the best thing to use both the mailing 
lists.

About the fact the Sun logo looks like a gear if used as icon for 
kickoff: you are totally right, that's why I'd suggest to use a generic 
icon for kickoff, not because of the Sun logo, but because I don't like 
the tradition to use a logo into the product itself (it also makes 
questions: it should be used the DE logo (Plasma one), the community one 
(KDE logo) or the distribution one? That's why I suggest to avoid this 
decision and simply use a generic "apps" icon). If generic "apps" icons 
will not be used, I totally agree with you that the Sun logo shouldn't 
be used in monochrome as kickoff icon.

Thanks you all for the replies,

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Alessandro Longo