https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_star
"A red star, five-pointed and filled (★), is an important symbol that has often historically been associated with communist ideology, particularly in combination with the hammer and sickle, but is also used as a purely socialist symbol in the 21st century."
How do you not know that *puzzled* ? I agree with the Groovy support, though... mg On 21/05/2020 03:54, Jim White wrote:
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 6:49 PM MG <mg...@arscreat.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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> > <mailto: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> <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 >
