Please have a Look to the history of visual Studio. Everyone already Knows it after redesigned it from.time.to.time. the Logo and the ui. See the jetbrains Logos, and still known. It is more a marketing Thing to present a redesign and why. New organistation, why not having a new look/brand?
Von: Michael Müller Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. Juli 2017 22:54 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: AW: Possible new splashscreen for NetBeans 9.0 BTW: I'm talking about the solid silver cube, not about the old red line drawing which is a sibling of a Visual Studio drawing. And I like that proposal for a new splashscreen with that old logo too. Personally, I prefer the word "NetBeans" a little bolder. Herzliche Grüße - Best Regards, Michael Müller Brühl, Germany blog.mueller-bruehl.de <http://blog.mueller-bruehl.de/> it-rezension.de <http://it-rezension.de/> @muellermi Read my books "Web Development with Java and JSF": https://leanpub.com/jsf "Java Lambdas and Parallel Streams": http://www.apress.com/de/book/9781484224861 "Visitors" a photographic image book: https://leanpub.com/visitors On 07/11/2017 10:07 PM, Michael Müller wrote: > But there are lots of reasons not to change it. > > The old logo is well known and associated with NetBeans. A little > facelifting, especially vectorize the logo would be fine. > > The new hexagon, with something like a cube inside might be anything. > Siegwerk or Liferay, but NetBeans. > > Who knows Beiersdorf? But everybody knows their Nivea. They will > loose, if they replace that logo by a new one. Keeping the old > fashioned logo now sells lot more than just a cream. > > Usually developers and designers love to re-invent the wheel. But we > shall not forget about the real importance: Improving the great IDE > and platform over creating modern but characterless logos. > > Just my two pence. > > > Herzliche Grüße - Best Regards, > > Michael Müller > Brühl, Germany > blog.mueller-bruehl.de <http://blog.mueller-bruehl.de/> > it-rezension.de <http://it-rezension.de/> > @muellermi > > > Read my books > "Web Development with Java and JSF": https://leanpub.com/jsf > "Java Lambdas and Parallel Streams": > http://www.apress.com/de/book/9781484224861 > "Visitors" a photographic image book: https://leanpub.com/visitors > > > On 07/11/2017 01:09 PM, Christian Lenz wrote: >> This shouldn’t be a reason to not Change it 😉 >> >> >> Gesendet von Mail für Windows 10 >> >> Von: Michael Müller >> Gesendet: Montag, 10. Juli 2017 23:42 >> An: [email protected] >> Betreff: Re: Possible new splashscreen for NetBeans 9.0 >> >> one more sibling: liferay developer tools >> >> The old cube is unique - and that is a greater worth than thousand >> modern icons. >> >> >> Herzliche Grüße - Best Regards, >> >> Michael Müller >> Brühl, Germany >> blog.mueller-bruehl.de <http://blog.mueller-bruehl.de/> >> it-rezension.de <http://it-rezension.de/> >> @muellermi >> >> >> Read my books >> "Web Development with Java and JSF": https://leanpub.com/jsf >> "Java Lambdas and Parallel Streams": >> http://www.apress.com/de/book/9781484224861 >> "Visitors" a photographic image book: https://leanpub.com/visitors >> >> >> On 07/09/2017 06:09 AM, Siddhesh Rane wrote: >>> ---- Michael Müller wrote ---- >>> >>>> Theses are commonly used for other products. I've seen something >>>> similar >>>> within Visual Studio and the logo of Siegwerk: >>>> https://www.siegwerk.com/de/startseite.html >>> Thanks for pointing this out Michael. >>> The logo of siegwerk is very similar to the new netbeans logo at >>> http://netbeans.apache.org and the concept is also pretty widespread >>> in modern designs so you'll also come across many similar logos. >>> I think we should stick to the old logo for a while now. We can >>> improve upon it. We currently don't have a vector graphics version >>> of it, so someone can rework it in SVG or PSD. >>> >>> Regards >>> Siddhesh Rane >> >> > >
