Author: sajolida Date: To: Tails user experience & user interface design Subject: Re: [Tails-ux] [Tails - Bug #10471] Fix PCB placement on Tails logo
Spencer: >> flapflap:
>> some more nitpicking :-)
>
> Always welcomed :)
>
>> The outer two pins (power: VCC and GND) should be slightly longer than
>> the inner two (data: D+, D-).
>
> Yep. About 1mm. The data pins are also spaced differently, too; closer
> together.
>
>> As a result, the power pins connect
>> before the data pins when a USB plug is connected to a receptacle.
>
> I kept the style of the existing Tails guy so the pins were easily
> recognizable by "regular folk". Should we change them to only show the
> power pins, as that is all that is visible at isometric view (dimetric
> and trimetric do not show enough of the top plane to expose the
> mechanically accurate location of the data pins)?
Hi,
I found the original idea of fixing the placement of the pins a funny
bug and I was not against people fixing it. Now, I'm quite strongly
opposed to changing more than that in the current drawing; which is
basically the position of *one* stroke (or five with the pins).
I think it would be a mistake to change the logo (after only 1.5 year of
use) to something that will make people go. "Hmm, they change the logo.
What's going on?" We're talking here about "brand" and "marketing" if
you want, and I don't want to change it just for more "technical
correctness" on the picture. Anyway a technically correct USB stick
would never smile, right?