18 Mar
2011
18 Mar
'11
7:40 p.m.
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(a)dimensionality.com <jamesg(a)dimensionality.com> wrote:
From: jamesg(a)dimensionality.com
<jamesg(a)dimensionality.com>
Subject: [trinity-devel] Trademarks and Needed Artwork
To: trinity-devel(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net
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
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