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List:       kde-artists
Subject:    Re: [kde-artists] branding button
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2008-12-20 21:23:45
Message-ID: 494D6261.5080505 () acm ! org
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Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
> 2008/12/20 James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj@acm.org
> <mailto:tyrerj@acm.org>>
> 
> Davide Bettio wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We need a new branding button. Right now we are using this one: 
> http://websvn.kde.org:80/*checkout*/trunk/KDE/kdebase/runtime/desktoptheme/widgets/branding.svgz
> 
> 
> IAC, here is an improvement with the current style trademark and it 
> is an actual SVG.
> 
> NOTE: If there is a specific font that should be used in place of 
> Bitstream Vera Sans Bold, please advise and I can change it.
> 
> Should I commit this?
> 
> 
> Hmm... this is really old style. Doesn't look any better than the old
>  one, just weirder (crystal & oxygen clashing)
> 
Since there is nothing Crystal about this, I can only guess that you
mean that the colors should be changed which is fine with me.

> and blurrier.

Perhaps the real font isn't a good idea.

> And embedding a png in an svg doesn't make the svg no longer an svg.
>  There are several good points in embedding raster images into an
> svg: quality of the renderer, speed, full control over every pixel...
> 
> 
But there is no point if it is *only* a PNG, you could just use a PNG 
and it would be even faster.

-- 
JRT
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