[Design-team] Live-CD icon

[Onyeibo Oku]

Wow! An icon ideal for different live-media types is a challenge. 
Fedora can boot from SD's too.
The Fedora logo can take care of that.  Can we go with that then, ....
or should I explore more possibilities and create variants for USB (and
SD)?


Onyeibo :http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:twohot

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> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:50:43 +0200
> From: Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro>
> Subject: Re: [Design-team] Live-CD icon
> To: Fedora Design Team <design-team at lists.fedoraproject.org>
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> On 02/24/2010 06:42 PM, Hiemanshu Sharma wrote:
> > On 02/24/2010 09:43 PM, Onyeibo Oku wrote:
> >> I have updated the Proposed Live-CD Icon.
> >> Comments and inputs please ....
> >> Here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Fedora-Live-CD-icon.svg
> >>
> > Looks very nice, could you make a different version that says "Live CD"
> > on the Disc and probably one that says DVD as well?
> 
> I think the icon is better as is, without any text on it:
> - text on icons is bad, it will work only on some languages, is not 
> translatable;
> - it will bring the additional trouble of finding the target media, it 
> is a CD? a DVD? how about an USB drive? when packaging. Is simpler to 
> have just one generic icon.
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