Re: New icon for Pan?

On 06/23/11 21:16, Duncan wrote:
> Heinrich Mueller posted on Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:18:45 +0200 as excerpted:
>
>> Hi guys.
>> What do you think about that icon for Pan?
>> http://image.shutterstock.com/
> display_pic_with_logo/224071/224071,1220413955,14/stock-vector-vector-
> illustration-of-a-pan-flute-16887664.jpg
>
>> I think it looks really nice, but it costs a few bucks. Is there a fund
>> for such things?
> At the resolution of the image at the URL, it's fine, but it doesn't
> downscale to 32x32 let alone 16x16 icon size very well as it ends up
> looking like a throw-rug.  The association with pan would thus be unclear
> and confusing.
>
> Not that the current icon is particularly clear at that scale either.  I
> just don't find your proposal much better, certainly not /enough/ better
> to be worth both the payment and the cost associated with changing the
> already familiar.
>
> But that's just my opinion...
>
> Now what /might/ be interesting, at least to me, would be a community
> contest, for a new icon, perhaps in connection with a planned pan 1.0.
> It could generate some publicity about pan in an otherwise obscure-and-
> getting-more-so application genre...
>
> To directly answer your question, tho, no, I've never heard of anything
> like a fund for such things.
>
> Charles used to have a tip jar.  IIRC he remarked at one point that he'd
> gotten something like $32 from it over the years.  (I mentioned it a few
> times on the user list and believe he got a bit more, possibly a bit
> above $50 total, so say $64, over the years, but...)  But that's about as
> close as it'd come and I imagine Charles used that either to pay misc
> site expenses (tho the site itself was and is hosted by someone more or
> less donating it, in return for the right to serve ads, anyway, I
> believe) or as "beer money".  That's as close as I know of tho, but even
> then, not close at all except in that it was related to pan and related
> to money.
>
> OTOH, if someone were to buy the image and donate it, with or without a
> community fundraising drive to help cover the cost, it might be worth
> it.  Even if I don't really care for the icon, I'm neutral to it, and the
> PR associated with such a drive, as I've indicated above, could IMO be
> good for pan.
>
> But that's getting the cart a bit before the horse.  PKovar is the keeper
> of the official repo, and aside from his own personal opinion, I suppose
> he'd be most interested in two things, what KHaley thinks, and how it
> might fit within the Gnome guidelines.  About the latter I've not the
> foggiest, tho PKovar may well have some clue.
>
I think a contest would be nice. If not, i would perhaps be willing to 
donate the icon
to pan.