Thinking about the logo

[Airdale]

@BarryK :-

Perhaps something like this?

Keeps your idea of a circle, with a more "professional-looking" thumbs-up..... 'Only' a PNG, I'm afraid; never could get the hang of vector graphics.

Mike.

I think its great!

[williwaw]

For EasyOS, this logo looks nice.

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agreed, it does look nice

[bugnaw333]

sum up and enhanced.

[bugnaw333]

or much simpler:
Suggestions are welcome...

[Clarity]

@BarryK For benefit: "Enable paravirtualization code" SHOULD be on in your kernels.

[bugnaw333]

another one:

[backi]

Looks really cool...." sharp "...

[scsijon]

For EasyOS, this logo looks nice. Circle for completeness and simplicity, and a tick to acknowledge completion and success:

easyos96.png

I have it as an svg, so can play around with colours etc.

I deliberately placed the tick off-centre, as all other circle logos with a tick inside place the tick in the centre of the circle. There needs to be differentiation from other logos.

Same tick problem I think, but i do like it.

What about the face with thumb up from about easyos 2.8.1? Doesn't look bad.

[bugnaw333]

"Your wish is my command"

[je55eah]

Here is an svg version of the container dog with a transparent background:

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[BarryK]

@je55eah
Dog in cage looks interesting.
Is that artwork your own creation, or copied or derived from elsewhere?

[user1234]

Here is an svg version of the container dog with a transparent background:
kennelOScontainerDog5.png

By the way, won't that be sutable for cagepup, and not easyos (I don't see any connection between cage and easyos)? Maybe due to overlayfs?

[je55eah]

Representing containers and layers with iconography has proven to be difficult, but a cage is a type of container. Since EasyOS is focused on using containers to isolate processes and even entire operating systems such as PuppyLinux this is one of the better options I came up with. It symbolizes something that EasyOS does and it nods to the heritage of the OS.

Cage Linux or Kennel Linux might be better names than EasyOS, but that's not my call.

The graphic began as a product of an image generation application that I posted earlier. I prompted the image generator and I subsequently modified the original to make it look more finished. It's not perfect, but that's where I got after roughly four hours of manipulations. After fixing the raster graphic with IbisPaintX I used Inkscape to to vectorize and optimize it.

If you want to use the graphic for this Operating system you may have it, reproduce it, publish it, and make derivatives of it.

[esos]

How about this

[user1234]

How about this

Looks beautiful

[esos]

just an idea

[esos]

I am not the creater of the pictures, just put it together as an Idea may it look like for your own logo. Enjoy!

[user1234]

I am not the creater of the pictures, just put it together as an Idea may it look like for your own logo. Enjoy!

Puppy in iron man head? Marvel may not like it (nor might RDJ) ?

By the way, third one looks great !

[BarryK]

Had a laugh when I created this:

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...it's probably even less professional than the current logo.

Regarding the name EasyOS, maybe too late to change it, so have to live with it.
And don't know if i will ever get around to creating a new distro.

And the logo... maybe give that a rest.
Thanks very much for all the ideas.

I cannot decide on anything. Nothing has jumped out as "this is great!"
Partly the problem is to find a match for the name "EasyOS".
The only thing to do I reckon is to go for something abstract, like Debian has done.

But anyway, leave it for now. I'll come back sometime in 2023 and reconsider.

[don570]

There is no need to have a background image stored in the data SFS.
You can generate an original image using mtpaint scripting abilities.
You would still need a utility to show the desktop image.

I put the script in my arm distro and it worked well.
https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=106428

It creates a simple gradient ( at an angle) and then places some useful text
like the version number on top.

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[BarryK]

@don570
Thanks for reminding me about that!

Where are those commandline commands documented?
I did a quick search, not in the man file.

EDIT:
It's OK, found it:

https://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/handboo ... ap_10.html

Why get this error?:

Code: Select all

# mtpaint --cmd   -f/new w=1184 h=624 =24   -e/col a=0 -s/all -e/cut -e/col a=173  -e/freetype font='DejaVu Sans' antialias=0 size=70  back=-1 angle=0  -e/freetype text='Puppy Linux v10.9' -e/paste  \(300,210\) -effect/gaussian=3  -e/layer trans=0 -effect/gaussian=1  -s/all -e/copy  -e/'Save Clipboard'/1 -e/set  grad=1 -e/col a=0 b=173 -e/tool grad \(300,200 700,500\) -e/tool grad: type=lin ext=mirror     -s/all -e/cut  -e/'Load Clipboard'/1  -e/paste -effect/'Soften ...'=50  -f/as=test1 format=jpeg
'-e/freetype' does not match any item
[ OK ]
# 

I'm using mtpaint 3.49.12

[esos]

The last one

[don570]

scripting mtpaint for BarryK

I've forgotten why I put 'freetype' in script .
Maybe it's because linux OS likes to differentiate between truetype postscript etc typefaces???
I need to test in Easy OS...
However I did track down this post in old forum...
https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtop ... 79#p893779

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EDIT: I found another interesting post I made...
I downloaded
https://github.com/wjaguar/mtpaint_hand ... c/mdtim.pl
and stole some code from wjaguar.

The font name has to specified .
https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtop ... 66#p893266

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Perl scripts handle fonts in a particular way...

https://metacpan.org/pod/Font::FreeType
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[don570]

I would change this....

Code: Select all

text='Puppy Linux v10.9'

to this...

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t='Puppy Linux v10.9'

and see what happens.
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[don570]

I did some research overnite and my conclusion is that Easy OS stores its fonts in a way that is
inconsistent with other distros including Ubuntu.

I ran the following script in fatdog64 and tahrpup64 and had no problems.
...but in Easy OS the script can't locate any installed fonts.
Oddly mtpaint can obviously find fonts and use them. It is just mtpaint scripting that has problems finding Easy's fonts.

Background_clock.sh.gz

(16.72 KiB) Downloaded 34 times

remove gz extension

The script makes a 1184 by 624 image --> /usr/share/backgrounds/default222.jpg

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I used pfind in the various distros --> search term 'dejavu'
and there is a difference in each distro...

Tahrpup64

/etc/fonts/conf.d/57-dejavu-sans.conf
/var/packages/builtin_files/dejavu_fonts
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu
/usr/share/fonts/default/TTF/DejaVuSans.ttf
/etc/fonts/conf.avail/57-dejavu-sans.conf
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Easy OS 443

/usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSans.ttf
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Fatdog64

/etc/fonts/conf.avail/20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf
/usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/DejaVuSans.ttf
/var/log/packages/font-dejavu-ttf-2.37-noarch-1
/var/log/scripts/font-dejavu-ttf-2.37-noarch-1

fontconfig appears to be different as well.

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[Misaligned]

Haven't been looking at the forum for a while. Just saw the logo discussion started up again.
So ... just had a go with another idea, needs to have some more refinement (black outlines)
and I am not quite happy with the letter "S" yet. But for the most part, I think it has a friendly look.
If there is any interest, I can work on it some more.

[BarryK]

That does have a friendly look.

I like the eyes, but others might think that it doesn't look professional with the eyes.
What does it look like without the eyes?

[Misaligned]

Without eyes

[BarryK]

I like it. What do you other guys think?

Do you have it as an svg?

[greengeek]

I like it. What do you other guys think?

Top bar of the "Z" looks curved - a little too much like a "2" maybe?
Can it be straighter?