No. Never.
Are you sure you're not biased in any say? Not even a little? Come on...
Cheers,
Haakon Hansen
The "communist" kingdom of Norway
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Den 2020-05-21 03:48, skrev MG:
NEVER ? Not even a little ? Come on...
Socialist/communist red star:
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
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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
>
