22 Dec
2014
22 Dec
'14
2:20 p.m.
On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 14:51:48 -0600
"Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net> wrote:
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Thank you for the info; I had no idea as there is no such connotation in
English! Dragons don't exactly have a good reputation in English though,
and crows even less so unfortunately.
No, there is no hard and fast reason for the mascot having to be a bird;
my thoughts were just that we already have a big flightless bird as the
Linux logo, and birds are lightweight and fast.
We could pick another mythical beastie--gryphon? Salamander ("blazingly
fast")? Pegasus (flies and carries loads->fast and can support your business)?
Heraldic antelope (well, okay, I'm not really serious about that one)? A
phoenix might be appropriate ("rising from the ashes of KDE3"), but we'd
have to be careful to avoid treading on the toes of the old Firefox logo (from
the days before they got into a trademark dispute with Firebird and had
to change their name).
E. Liddell
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 09:03:10 -0500
From: mutantturkey(a)gmail.com
To: trinity-devel(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net
Subject: Re: [trinity-devel] New mascot for TDE, or no?
hummingbird is also already employed by dillo as a mascot. of course
for being 'light and fast'
On 22 December 2014 at 08:39, E. Liddell <ejlddll(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Personnally, I'm not sure about these kinds of birds of prey.
In french, we call it ''rapace'', which has an extremely bad
connotation.
Is there a specific reason why it should be a bird?
On kde.org, I can find the source blender file for Konqui, but I don't
know much at all on how to use Blender...
-Alexandre On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 20:39:37 -0600
"Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net> wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > Some months ago, a discussion about finding a new mascot for TDE
has bee
> > going on. Recently, I bought an HP 620lx
palmtop (er, Handheld PC,
for
> > non-Psion users) and I installed Jornada
Linux Mobility Edition,
available
> > at jlime.com
> >
> > I thought that a modified version of their logo could be
interesting as
a
> > TDE mascot, but I am not sure about the
legal aspect of it. Also,
what is
> > you opinion on it? I made a quick mockup
of what it could be.
> >
> > Have a great Christmas time!
> >
> > -Alexandre
>
> The basic idea is OK; as you said though I'm not sure of the legal
> implications as the penguin is universally associated with the Linux
> kernel.
I don't that would be a particular problem, since there are lots
of distributions using penguin variations in their logos.
> Taking the bird idea further, looking at this Wikipedia image I see a
> couple of birds that might be appropriate but I have no idea if they
are
> already taken:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird#mediaviewer/File:Bird_Diversity_2013.png
>
> Birds that imply lightweight operation and speed, such as the
hummingbird
> or various members of the swallow family
would be my first choices.
In
> line with TDE's professional image (at
least that's what I aspire for
TDE
> to be...) something that could be used and
easily recognized in
> businesslike vector art (e.g. for logos and such) would also be
> preferred.
Hummingbirds don't have much stamina, which is not a connotation I'm
sure we want, but the swallows have definite possibilities. Some of
them
have very nice plumage, too.
I'd be kind of tempted by the Welcome Swallow just because of its
name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_swallow Not
a bad-looking bird
either, although it isn't as flashy as, say, the Lesser Striped
Swallow.
>
> E. Liddell