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zcor · Blue Pill Joined: Feb 21, 2009 Posts: 1

Hi everyone. New NeoOffice user here, am immensely happy with the program, congratulations. And thanks!

The icon in all honesty doesn't do the software justice. It's not even a bad drawing, it just doesn't work as an icon. If you're going to stick with it just because it won an "award", you're being a little close-minded there. As NeoOffice becomes more and more widely used, perhaps it would be a good idea to start accepting new ideas. Just saying.

Best regards.

yoxi · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 1:18 am Post subject:

I think there have been perhaps at the most a dozen posts over the last few years from people who don't like the icon, and that's out of hundreds of thousands of downloads of the software (if we're not up to millions now).

This leads me to conclude that the few people who write in saying "Your icon is a bad icon, sirs" are actually saying "I don't like the icon, therefore it's a bad icon".

So I'm writing in to say (again) "I love the icon, therefore it's a good one" Smile

. Seriously, I sit it next to the other round stuff in the dock (e.g. Time Machine) and it looks great. In my opinion.

- padmavyuha

narf · The Anomaly Joined: Jan 21, 2007 Posts: 1075

Most importantly, NeoOffice's two developers Patrick and Ed (pluby and OPENSTEP in the forums) are very happy with the icon as it is.

Their opinions on this subject are in this thread (and probably elsewhere as well.)

--fran

sardisson · Town Crier Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588

I've never understood the tendency by companies and software programs to completely throw away the years of brand recognition they've built up in their logos by completely redoing them.

For better or for worse (and in my opinion, it's definitely for better), the ship exploring uncharted territory has been the symbol of the NeoOffice "brand" since its inception.

(Also, since it has been our symbol for so long, and so many of us do like it so much, our reactions in this thread probably seem very hostile; consider, for instance, if someone came up to you and said that you should no longer go by your own name because it didn't match that person's perception of who you are.)

Smokey

yakusha · Operator Joined: Oct 03, 2008 Posts: 43 Location: Gent BE

Hi,
my two cent, I've read the history behind it and even apart from that it doesn't look out of place among the other icons the Dock.

greetz,

human · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:27 pm Post subject:

Ditto. I think it looks great in my Dock, where it sits next to Safari's compass icon. It wasn't intentional, but there is a certain thematic continuity there.