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Re: [ART] Updated SLiM theme with GuixSD logo


From: Luis Felipe López Acevedo
Subject: Re: [ART] Updated SLiM theme with GuixSD logo
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 09:48:52 -0500

El vie, 13-02-2015 a las 10:46 +0100, Ludovic Courtès escribió:
> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
> 
> > - do we really want to use the abbreviation "GuixSD" (rather than the
> >   actual name) so prominently?  In my opinion the abbreviation just
> >   makes it easier to refer to the system, but it's not like that's the
> >   actual name.  As the focus is on offering a GNU system (which just
> >   happens to be called Guix System Distribution or GuixSD in ambiguous
> >   circumstances) wouldn't it be better to stay with either just the new
> >   wildebeest logo or simply the GNU logo?
> 
> That’s the feeling that many of us shared several weeks ago, that we
> shouldn’t do any branding other than GNU.
> 
> OTOH, it’s become clear that we’d have no support in doing that and no
> influence over the GNU “brand”; in that sense, we would have to spend a
> lot of energy for a result that may be unsatisfying.  I suspect Felipe
> reached the same conclusion.
> 

Exactly. So I proposed the new logo to avoid any clash within the GNU
Project.

I also feel unhappy about not being able to promote this system as the
GNU Operating System (because that's what I think it is). [1]

[1]
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-system-discuss/2014-11/msg00002.html





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