Re: GuixSD artwork

[Mark H Weaver]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 04:59:17PM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
>>> Why would we drop the checkerboard pattern again?  I like it a lot!
>>
>> That of course is a question of taste; I am not so fond of it.
>> But my message was not to discuss matters of taste (which according
>> to German and French sayings is impossible). I seem to recall that
>> the pattern was simply an artefact of the program used to create
>> the png from the svg, and that it had been discussed and corrected.
>
> Could you find again that discussion?  I forgot what the arguments were
> and what happened.

As I recall, while I was trying to change our svg->png code to use
simpler tools to avoid requiring 'inkscape', I guessed that the
checkboard pattern might be a mere artifact, but Luis later confirmed
that it was an intentional part of the design.

      Mark