On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:48:26AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 11:36:03AM +0100, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 09:44:36AM +0100, Erik Skultety wrote:
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Speaking of logos...at the risk of opening a huge bucket of paint:
The current libvirt logo is bit non-intuitive. Unless you squint at it to see what it might be about, you won't immediately get an idea what is trying to tell you. Not sure if there's appetite to rework the logo itself.
I don't really want to go there - I really like our logo.
In general I don't think logos really need to explain what the project is, largely because doing so is impossible/impractical for most technical projects.
I agree that's a rabbit hole we don't want to go into, not least because of the practicality point you mention.
Let me see if I can describe the image in words: "you're peeling off some layer and you see little penguins (VMs) get churned out".
You know it is basically a "sardine tin", but with penguins right ?
Ah, I didn't know that; thanks for the education. I heard of the term Sardine (a kind of a small edible fish that is commonly shipped in a tin) for the first time; just learnt from wikipedia.
The tin is the computer, and the sardines (penguins) are the OS that are crammed inside it. That's a pretty good analogy for VMs IMHO.
In that context of "tinned sardines", and your explanation, it does make for a decent analogy. Interesting; I never connected the dots this way (/me chalks it up to him being a vegetarian ;-)) and always wondered about the meaning of the logo. Now I see. Maybe a quick libvirt wiki page, "about logo" would be nice, explaining what it is. I think it is amusing to know.
(But that's from my biased POV of already knowing what libvirt is.)
For some inspiration, take a look at how the `curl` project went about redesigning its logo[1].
I don't think the new curl logo is any more "intuitive" in explaining what the project is than their old logo. Unless you already know that CURL is a library for downloading web content, the implications of the "://" will pass right over your head. The new curl logo is certainly a very nice improvement, but that's because the old one was really pretty crude so anything would be better. I wouldn't say it is any more intuitive though - just a nicer graphic design.
Yeah, I was indeed thinking: "Okay, the new logo _looks_ pretty, and makes sense to those who know what `curl` is; but isn't all that terribly intuitive for a newcomer." Alright, your argument persuades me to not go down that route of a new logo. [...] -- /kashyap