Hello FreeRDP developers,
I had an idea the other day for a FreeRDP logo. I was thinking about it, and
a lot of open source projects use an animal to represent them, oftentimes a
cute one. Here's a short list that comes to my mind right now:
Linux
Twitter
Firefox
Thunderbird
Perl
Python
etc...
Obviously, the first thing that comes to mind when trying to think of an
icon suitable for a remote desktop application is something that somehow
represents a computer remotely accessed (an antenna, a computer, etc). I
think that logos using those type of elements have been pretty much used by
a lot of other projects already. I think we'd be better off with something
significantly different from those logos, something simple that would be
instantly recognized as "FreeRDP" and not just a "remote desktop client".
The most beautiful logos I could find for other remote desktop applications
are usually for applications in the App Store or on the Android Market. Here
are some apps with interesting logos:
http://jumpdesktop.com/ Jump Desktop - a skydiver in the clouds
http://www.wyse.com/products/software/pocketcloud/index.asp - a kite in the
clouds
Most other logos I could find are pretty much variants of a "remote
computer",
otherwise they have some sort of double arrows like Remote RDP Enterprise:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.toremote.serversmanager&feature=search_result
I own a rabbit because it's pretty much the only type of nice animal I can
get with my allergies. I tweeted a pic of him the other day:
http://twitpic.com/4uqsbm
I was thinking - rabbits are cute animals, and a rabbit logo could actually
make sense: if a skydiver makes sense for "jump desktop", then a rabbit
could make sense for FreeRDP. The metaphor would be that FreeRDP can make
you "jump" to a remote computer, just like a rabbit can jump. Rabbits are
fast runners as well, just like FreeRDP :P Alternatively, we could also
think of it as the rabbit leaping like FreeRDP leaps over the competition,
hehe.
Rabbits are used for various companies, but I don't think a lot of open
source projects actually use it as their logo. In any case, even if other
projects use a rabbit, the goal would be to have a logo that clearly
differentiates us from the other RDP clients out there, instead of just
being one of the many.
What do you guys think? Would a rabbit make a nice logo for FreeRDP?
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