On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 6:49 PM MG <mg...@arscreat.com> wrote: > NEVER ? Not even a little ? Come on... > > Socialist/communist red star: > > > You're trolling us, right? The only thing "Communist" about that is the red. The figure is purely a filled pentagram.
Great to see OpenOffice getting renewed support for Groovy scripting. -- Jim > > > > > Scale horizontally: > > > > Change fill color, add black outline: > > > > > Add font-of-choice groovy text: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > That's why I jokingly call it the communist logo. > I personally agree with the recent critique towards the logo looking old > and not entirely professional, but apart from that the fact that it is > quite wide makes it not a good fit with regards to being used as an icon: > > > > > It also does not scale well down to small size: > > > > But it was just a suggestion, > Cheers, > mg > > > > On 20/05/2020 22:22, Søren Berg Glasius wrote: > > I have NEVER considered the Groovy logo to look like the communist star. > As a matter of fact, I find the Groovy Star logo easily recognizable, and > in the given case, I like it over the circled G. > > Best regards / Med venlig hilsen, > Søren Berg Glasius > > Hedevej 1, Gl. Rye, 8680 Ry, Denmark > Mobile: +45 40 44 91 88, Skype: sbglasius > --- Press ESC once to quit - twice to save the changes. > > > Den ons. 20. maj 2020 kl. 21.47 skrev MG <mg...@arscreat.com>: > >> I have added a comment suggesting considering using the Groovy >> "icon"/Jira logo instead of the communist star one ( >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_star) G-) >> Cheers, >> mg >> >> On 20/05/2020 20:00, Carl Marcum wrote: >> >> I have attached the screenshots to this issue [1]. >> Please let me know if you have any questions. >> >> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-9564 >> >> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 6:32 AM Carl Marcum <cmar...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> Hi Paul, >>> >>> Having trouble attaching the image to Jira for some reason so I'm >>> getting with infra about it. >>> >>> I'll post back the issue when created. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Carl >>> >>> On 5/19/20 10:31 PM, Paul King wrote: >>> > Hi Carl, >>> > >>> > This sounds like the kind of use of the Groovy logo that we'd like to >>> > support. Can I ask you to create a Groovy Jira issue and attach a >>> > screenshot. >>> > >>> > Thanks, Paul. >>> > >>> > >>> > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 11:40 AM Carl Marcum <cmar...@apache.org >>> > <mailto:cmar...@apache.org>> wrote: >>> > >>> > Hello, >>> > >>> > I'm wrapping up work on an Apache OpenOffice extension to add >>> Apache >>> > Groovy as a scripting language to OpenOffice. >>> > >>> > The extensions require a small thumbnail image that displays in the >>> > Extension Manager for each installed extension beside the extension >>> > title and description. >>> > >>> > I request to use the Groovy star logo for this thumbnail if >>> > possible as >>> > Groovy is the whole point of the extension. >>> > >>> > Although I'm on the AOO PMC this extension is a personal project >>> > for the >>> > time being and I plan on releasing it through our >>> > extensions.openoffice.org <http://extensions.openoffice.org> site >>> > under the Apache license. >>> > >>> > I can send a screenshot if you would like to see the intended >>> usage. >>> > I'm subscribed to dev@ or feel free to contact me directly. >>> > >>> > Best regards, >>> > Carl Marcum >>> > >>> >>> >> >
