From graphics-request at octave dot org Mon Feb 20 09:17:21 2006
Subject: Re: Octave Workshop logo
From: Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee dot org>
To: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>
CC: Sebastien Loisel <sloisel at gmail dot com>,         octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers@octave.org>,         octave-graphics <graphics@octave.org>, clearbeast@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:12:56 -0600

Bill Denney wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Sebastien Loisel wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've recruited Lee Olson, a KDE artist, to make me the handful of 
>> logos I need for Octave Workshop (splash screen, install logo, 
>> minimization icon, perhaps eventually also for the web page, all at 
>> various scales.) I think the main reason is that the graphic I use on 
>> the splash screen is allegedly public domain, but I have no proof of 
>> that.
>>
>> We need to decide what kind of logo we're going to use. One 
>> possibility is to use the sombrero, as it is already associated with 
>> Octave. However, if people prefer to keep things distinct, we can 
>> just go with something different, as I had done with the blackboard.
>>
>> So let me know what you think and then I'll ask Lee to do it.
>
>
> One thing that I'd like (if he's willing) would be a better generic 
> icon that can be used for both the regular icon and for a website 
> favicon (the only one that I can find at the moment is 
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/octave/octave-forge/admin/Windows/octave.ico?rev=1.1&view=log 
> which I'm not personally all that fond of).


I'd like to see a better icon as well. I definitely don't like the one 
Bill pointed out, which I didn't even know existed. I also have to admit 
that while the sombrero has become the de facto octave logo, it seems to 
me a bit of an imitation of the Matlab logo, so maybe we should consider 
thinking of a new one. One thing I do like about the sombrero is that it 
can be generated using octave, and I think any new design should do the 
same. Ideas?

-Quentin