On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 04:37:59PM +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On 8/25/05, Karol Krenski <pldmimooh@...954...> wrote:
Hi list,
The logo is not enough guys, there should be some maskot for inkscape.
What for?
Hmmm, seems like I missed with the idea, then. I thought there can be both logo and mascot. The thing is logo can't walk, can't hold a pencil in its hands or such, but maybe that's not needed indeed.
Linux has one, gimp has one, mozilla has one. The sooner it happens, the better.
I tend to agree with Alexandre (but I am no developer so my opinion has little weight). The Inkscape logo is nice and it can look very good with some polish (see http://openclipart.org/clipart//computer/icons/inkscape.svg), which
I like the logo very much. And maybe one could add legs, arms and some face to the logo if one wanted inkscape to walk or hold a pencil even.
decrease the need for a mascot. Linux has no logo other than "Linux" word (with the "i" in italic and red), so it needed something (Tux). Similarly, the logo for GIMP had only "theGIMP", so Wilber was needed. I don't think Mozilla really has a logo: the green lizard was the Netscape's logo, the red lizard was not much used because of the green lizard (trademarks) and because of it's communist look, the Fox is only for Firefox etc.
If in the end a mascot will be wanted, I expect a contest similar with the one for the about screen will be organized.
Karol