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