Form before function? Hmm. I better take a nap! :D Darrell --- On Fri, 3/18/11, Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...> wrote: > From: Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...> > Subject: Re: [trinity-devel] Trademarks and Needed Artwork > To: trinity-devel@... > Date: Friday, March 18, 2011, 2:40 PM > Firefox did not establish any > precedent. The Mozilla people barked and the Debian people > jumped. Nothing legal was decided. Possibly the Mozilla > people would have won had the Debian people resisted, but > who knows? > > I don't know about what Miguel de Icaza might have said. A > first year law student would recognize such remarks as > hearsay. :) > > Bear in mind that right now most everybody is focused on > creating a product: form before function. Cmake ports are > more important to me right now than logos. :) > > With that said, somebody probably needs to think about the > issue. You might be correct that new logos are needed or are > even wise. I don't have a dog in the fight. :) > > Regarding art work, there is an entire package devoted to > that: kdeartwork. You can download the 3.5.12 binary > package, unzip/unpack, and then study everything. In that > package you'll find screen savers, styles, themes, splash > screens, emoticons, icons, sounds, and wallpaper. > > Darrell > > > --- On Fri, 3/18/11, jamesg@... > <jamesg@...> > wrote: > > > From: jamesg@... > <jamesg@...> > > Subject: [trinity-devel] Trademarks and Needed > Artwork > > To: trinity-devel@... > > Date: Friday, March 18, 2011, 1:26 PM > > Darrell Anderson wrote: > > >Regarding that drawing you refer, I would vote > no.< > > > > It's actually not a yes or no question, but then > you're > > objecting to the > > entire idea in the first place... > > > > > > >Hold up in court? I can't imagine anybody from the > KDE > > non-profit > > organization taking that issue to court.< > > > > If it came to fistcuffs, trademark law would force > their > > hand, lest anyone > > be able to use it for anything (and Firefox has > already > > created the > > precedent, thus the existence of IceCat, IceWeasel, et > c.) > > -- but there > > are other reasons we probably should have more > distinct > > branding. As more > > people run into KDE 4+, do we really want branding > > confusable for theirs? > > So they see our logo and assume we're just like KDE 4 > or 5 > > and use Gnome > > instead? (That would make Miguel de Icaza's day -- > he > > vehemently wants > > everything KDE related (this especially includes us) > to > > cease to exist > > last I heard -- my interest in trying out Mono > evaporated > > when I read that > > article...) > > > > If nothing else, would it not be prudent to have > something > > to use should > > things change and any reasons for not changing it > > evaporate? > > > > > > >If you are handy with art work (I am not! :)), > how > > about working on some > > login splash screens for Trinity? Or some > wallpaper?< > > > > The hard part I've been having is FINDING the > locations of > > the artwork I > > consider most urgent to update (the KDE dragon artwork > when > > one looks at > > Help->About Trinity in Konqueror, for a glaring > > example). Failing > > miserably at this, I've since decided to go with the > other > > angle and > > simply find what I can that needs to be updated. > Most > > of what I have so > > far are screenshots that need replacing. > > > > If you can find the locations of things needing to be > > replaced (K-gear > > logos, cute dragon mascots, et c.) PLEASE add them > to: > > > > http://trinity.etherpad.trinitydesktop.org/14 > > > > Many thanks in advance! 8) > > > > > > Strangelv > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-devel-unsubscribe@... > > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help@... > > Read list messsages on the Web archive: http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ > > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-devel-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help@... > Read list messsages on the Web archive: http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > >