Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-artwork (31 mails)

["Francis Giannaros" <francisg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/26/07, Jakub Steiner <jimmac@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My take on it is that we shouldn't do
> that with the official logo, but allow such interpretations for the
> Geeko button.

I agree that the specific main logo should not be modified/deformed
etc in such a way, but being able to only modify the Geeko button is
perhaps too restrictive, I think.

> I'm cc:ing David Groom, the director of brand communications of Novell
> to help with relation of the openSUSE brand to the Novell brand. The
> logo page up on novell.com seems to provide a few web buttons combining
> the secondary Novell 'N' graphic with the chameleon's head. Do we want
> to communicate the link between Novell and openSUSE in such a prominent
> way?

I would _definitely_ disagree with this; I think the red and green are
far too contrasting/awkward and such a thing would steer a little too
much attention towards Novell instead of openSUSE. openSUSE should get
all the attention.

> I wouldn't demotivate people experiment with the mascot. Something like
> the chameleon samurai may not end up in the default styling, but it does
> have a potential building the link with the distro's main audience -
> wide home user community.

I think this is indeed very important as well.

Kind thoughts,
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Francis Giannaros
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