This is, of course, not a very important issue, or something that
(technical) people really care about, but for now I can only help the
XEmacs development in this area.
I wanted to propose my idea of a new XEmacs logo. Currently I have
nothing specific in mind on how that new logo should look like -- I just
dislike the old one.
The biggest problem with the existing logo is it's transparency. Many
people have background color other than default gray and that is one of the
reasons why those dislike the logo. I am one of them - I use
DarkSlateGray background. You can see how ugly it turns out by visiting
XEmacs Beta section of
xemacs.org.
Also I personally dislike the italic font. In my opinion italic font can
only spoil a title or a logo. The very sharp and dark shadow doesn't fit
at all. It is too unrealistic to add something to the logo. You might
of course disagree with me here, but I don't think people say "wow"
about the existing logo. Neither does it reflect the functionality of
XEmacs... or it's beauty :-)
How old is the existing logo?
So, I would like to suggest to make some alternative logos and choose
the best one for the upcoming versions. Maybe we should make it a
contest, I don't know. Debian people solved their "problem" that way...
I took the initiative myself and created one. It can be found at
http://dreamer.nitro.dk/linux/xemacs/screenshot.png. It should be
considered merely as a suggestion and not necessary something I really
want to see in the next versions of XEmacs. I encourage other people to
make logos that are better than the existing one, and mine as well.
Not to repeat myself too much here is a part of a reply to my logo
suggestion from comp.emacs.xemacs:
> In any case, here are my specific objections: first off, the
name is
> "XEmacs", not "XEMACS".
And here is (was) my answer:
I knew that this could be a discussion topic for some when I was
creating my logo. Personally I see nothing wrong with my choice. This
form (all caps) is used by many print press typographers (or whoever
does the work) as you can notice on front pages of many books and other
print press publications.
On the other hand I think It would be wrong to write xemacs or Xemacs
(or xEmacs etc.). By writing a word in caps is not a grammar error
unlike the other examples, in my opinion.
The other side of this style is that is looks better because XEMACS is
more symmetrical than XEmacs.
So, what do you think of the whole idea?
--
Sergej Malinovski [
http://dreamer.nitro.dk]