Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-04-11 Thread Reimar Grabowski
On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 21:58:55 -0400 Ben Grasset wrote: > I'm not at all getting why people think it's "kitten-like." Have you guys > ever actually seen a kitten? Sure, they look like this: https://tinyurl.com/y9hod4gg > And a much better/more tasteful cheetah than that >

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-04-09 Thread Ben Grasset
I'm not at all getting why people think it's "kitten-like." Have you guys ever actually seen a kitten? This logo looks like a cheetah, as it's presumably supposed to. And a much better/more tasteful cheetah than that ancient, annoying "running" GIF at the top of all the Free Pascal websites

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-04-06 Thread Reimar Grabowski
On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 09:53:19 +0700 Mr Bee via fpc-pascal wrote: > Lock-in strategy is just a term in business, but it never really locks > anybody into anything. You won't be punished if you don't use Swift on > Apple's platform or C# on Microsoft's platform.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-04-06 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 6 Apr 2018, Mr Bee via fpc-pascal wrote: Yes. For me, this is the direction to go in. But it's Lazarus logo. I think we should have a distinguished logo between the compiler and the IDE. I didn't say you need to copy it. I just think that it is minimalistic, yet still

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-04-05 Thread Mr Bee via fpc-pascal
2018-04-04 16:58 GMT+07:00 Michael Van Canneyt : > >> Do you mean this: >> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/File:Lazarus-icons-lpr- >> proposal-bpsoftware.png >> ? >> > > Yes. For me, this is the direction to go in. But it's Lazarus logo. I think we should have a

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-04-04 Thread stdreamer
On 04/04/2018 14:22 μμ, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Hm. Clearly, that means not important at all for me: I cannot recall ever having looked at the CE logo. In fact, until 30 seconds ago, I did not even know what it stands for. Well it is, you are just not aware of it. It presents it self in

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-04-04 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 4 Apr 2018, stdreamer wrote: On 04/04/2018 12:58 μμ, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: And this kind of statement is why I don't take branding or marketing seriously. On one hand "..then branding is quite important" and on the other hand "don't take it too literally". That simply does

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-04-04 Thread stdreamer
On 04/04/2018 12:58 μμ, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: And this kind of statement is why I don't take branding or marketing seriously. On one hand "..then branding is quite important" and on the other hand "don't take it too literally". That simply does not compute for me. let me try to make it

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-04-04 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 4 Apr 2018, Mr Bee via fpc-pascal wrote: 2018-04-03 14:21 GMT+07:00 Michael Van Canneyt : I meant the icon it uses for the IDE. Do you mean this: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/File:Lazarus-icons-lpr-proposal-bpsoftware.png ? Yes. For me, this is

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-04-04 Thread Mr Bee via fpc-pascal
2018-04-03 14:21 GMT+07:00 Michael Van Canneyt : > > I meant the icon it uses for the IDE. Do you mean this: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/File:Lazarus-icons-lpr-proposal-bpsoftware.png ? > A lot thinner :) > Let's see what I can do. > And here I will stop: as

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-04-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 3 Apr 2018, Tomas Hajny wrote: On Tue, April 3, 2018 09:21, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: . . But cheetah do have whiskers. Other people complained the old logo weren't really look like a cheetah's face. Which "old logo" is that ? As far as I know, the only logo FPC has is the little

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-04-03 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Tue, April 3, 2018 09:21, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: . . >> But cheetah do have whiskers. Other people complained the old logo >> weren't really look like a cheetah's face. > > Which "old logo" is that ? As far as I know, the only logo FPC has is the > little running cheetah on the website.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-04-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
Please look at the lazarus logo/icon. It has no whiskers. I opened lazarus.freepascal.org and I found it's using a paw as its logo. Did I miss something? Sorry… I haven't been following Lazarus news for quite a while, so I don't know the current logo. I meant the icon it uses for the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-04-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 2 Apr 2018, Mr Bee via fpc-pascal wrote: The proposed logo is updated. What's new: - it has eye balls. - more rounded face. - more rounded ears. - more visible whiskers. Cheetah is a member of cat big family. So, of course it will look like a cat or kitten. Nothing I can do about

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2018-04-02 14:05, Mr Bee via fpc-pascal wrote: > Perhaps I should make the whiskers a bit less visible? Thinner perhaps? Exactly what I suggested. Overall, your logo 2nd logo looks "less" kitten like than the first one. So it is heading in the right direction. I think almost invisible

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-04-02 Thread Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb am Mo., 2. Apr. 2018, 15:13: > On 02/04/18 09:45, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > remove the whiskers. > > As an exercise I have done the job for you. See here: > > http://www.freepascal.org/~michael/pascal_logo2.png > > It's of

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-04-02 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 02/04/18 09:45, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: remove the whiskers. As an exercise I have done the job for you. See here: http://www.freepascal.org/~michael/pascal_logo2.png It's of course better to improve the original, I am not an artist.(I even would get rid of more elements, but let's start

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-04-02 Thread Mr Bee via fpc-pascal
2018-04-02 16:36 GMT+07:00 Michael Van Canneyt : > Please look at the lazarus logo/icon. It has no whiskers. > I opened lazarus.freepascal.org and I found it's using a paw as its logo. Did I miss something? Sorry… I haven't been following Lazarus news for quite a while,

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-04-02 Thread Bart
On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 3:34 AM, Mr Bee via fpc-pascal wrote: > The proposed logo is updated. I think it's a nice logo. Bart ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-04-02 Thread Mr Bee via fpc-pascal
The proposed logo is updated. What's new: - it has eye balls. - more rounded face. - more rounded ears. - more visible whiskers. Cheetah is a member of cat big family. So, of course it will look like a cat or kitten. Nothing I can do about it. Are there more suggestions? Thank you. 2018-03-31

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-04-01 Thread James Richters
>I have written a few small windows type apps, but still prefer console. More >of the programming is for function instead of display. I also prefer ‘console’ but I prefer it for heavy graphical UI applications as well as functional types of programming.I cannot stand programs the try to

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-04-01 Thread Paul Nance
I couldn't agree more. I still program in (what everyone now calls console) pascal. While working on a large project, will even go into virtual machine to use the Borland Pascal 7 IDE, which works a little better than the FPC IDE. Of course, having started pascal with Borland's Pascal for CPM

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-04-01 Thread Alexander Grotewohl
I can't help but feel like they'd still just download regular fpc and use it at the console with the help of a minimal syntax highlighting editor. Don't get me wrong, that's exactly how I like to use fpc, but I already know lazarus is awesome for all the bells and whistles. The problem with

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-03-31 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2018-03-31 14:48, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > IMHO It makes the cheetah look more like a kitten. That was my first thought too - the logo looks too kitten like. Else maybe try and make the wiskers about a 1/3 of the line width to see if that reduces the "kitten" look. Regards, Graeme --

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-03-31 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 31 Mar 2018, Vojtěch Čihák wrote: Hi,   cheetahs have usually more rounded head and rounded ears. And whiskers should be curved. http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/cheetah-populations-keep-falling-scientists-demand-better-protection#stream/0 Just my 50 cents. And as you can see,

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-03-31 Thread Vojtěch Čihák
.   __ Od: Mr Bee via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> Komu: FPC-Pascal Users Discussions <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> Datum: 30.03.2018 05:52 Předmět: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo Hi,These days, most modern programming languages have its own logo. The

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-03-31 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 31 Mar 2018, Mr Bee via fpc-pascal wrote: 2018-03-30 15:21 GMT+07:00 Michael Van Canneyt : I would get rid of the whiskers. What's wrong with the whiskers?  IMHO It makes the cheetah look more like a kitten.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-03-31 Thread Mr Bee via fpc-pascal
2018-03-30 16:19 GMT+07:00 Ingemar Ragnemalm : > > The logo is very good, and well connected to the tradtion set by the > animated gif. The alternative would be to use a frame of the animation, or > similar sideways cheetah, but scaled up so it can have different >

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-03-31 Thread Mr Bee via fpc-pascal
2018-03-30 15:21 GMT+07:00 Michael Van Canneyt : > > I would get rid of the whiskers. > > What's wrong with the whiskers?  -- Regards, –Mr Bee ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-03-30 Thread Ched
My preference goes to the profile (on the animation) than on the tatoo-like face of the cheeta. Ched' ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-03-30 Thread Ingemar Ragnemalm
Den 2018-03-30 kl. 05:54, Mr Bee wrote: Hi, These days, most modern programming languages have its own logo. The logo becomes a "brand", a unique visual identity for the language. It also acts as a "trademark", a recognizable image for the language. It also helps the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-03-30 Thread Maciej Izak
We have also updated classical logo : https://drive.google.com/file/d/136Ft-sZsnm6uJPmBXeDIeCUW-u0GJ8qS/view?usp=sharing svg version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y1IsWgvPx9S89XD_ZTzg12gz0Va-_nNS/view?usp=sharing 2018-03-30 10:09 GMT+02:00 Florian Klämpfl : > >

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-03-30 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, Florian Klämpfl wrote: Am 30.03.2018 um 05:52 schrieb Mr Bee via fpc-pascal: Hi, These days, most modern programming languages have its own logo. The logo becomes a "brand", a unique visual identity for the language. It also acts as a "trademark", a recognizable image

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-03-30 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 30.03.2018 um 05:52 schrieb Mr Bee via fpc-pascal: > Hi, > > These days, most modern programming languages have its own logo. The logo > becomes a "brand", a > unique visual identity for the language. It also acts as a "trademark", a > recognizable image for the > language. It also helps the

[fpc-pascal] Proposal for new Free Pascal logo

2018-03-29 Thread Mr Bee via fpc-pascal
Hi, These days, most modern programming languages have its own logo. The logo becomes a "brand", a unique visual identity for the language. It also acts as a "trademark", a recognizable image for the language. It also helps the community to have a single visual identity to distinguish them from