Let's request Logos 4 Mac to be more Mac like 1) Enhance the app. icon
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John
That is awesome. Look at how my Dock looks now.
Every blessing
Alan
iMac Retina 5K, 27": 3.6GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9; 16GB RAM;MacOS 10.15.5; 1TB SSD; Logos 8
MacBook Air 13.3": 1.8GHz; 4GB RAM; MacOS 10.13.6; 256GB SSD; Logos 8
iPad Pro 32GB WiFi iOS 13.5.1
iPhone 8+ 64GB iOS 13.5.1
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Glad your happy! Glory to Christ.
John
Thank you for all the work on L4 icons [Y]. Now, if I could decide which one I like best. [H]
Now that I think about it. The last one is my favorite (the red Bible with the Logos icon).
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Thanks Jack. Praise GOD! i think i got a few more in the works. i will be sure to post them when they are done!
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My point is simply that Logos is losing business because of its overt Christian/Protestant/Evangelical branding. I've seen it first-hand. It wouldn't take much to modify- change the scholars collection to be more scholarly, change the icon, perhaps some other small things like that. That doesn't do anything to its primary market, and goes a long way towards resolving those problems I've mentioned here, which I've seen first-hand.
Logos used to go to great lengths to be unoffensive, and we used to have ambitions to build more secular products, and to have our technology used for non-Bible related materials.
Our Logos had no Christian symbology (just the "Logos" name), and the Libronix DLS was designed in a modular fashion so that you could deliver it without the "BibleTools" addin and it would appear to be a completely secular product. We used generic examples in much of the (also modular) help system, and avoided Bible-specific language in the application shell.
You could -- and publishers did -- deliver legal, scientific, and other content. A model railroading magazine delivered their electronic content using our "de-Bible-ified" engine.
We were especially sensitive to Jewish customers, and we worked with the Jewish Publication Society. Yet we found there was always some way to accidentally offend someone. Some Jewish users didn't want JPS to work with us at all. A Catholic publisher got upset when they found a data type for Calvin's Institutes included in the system. (We designed it, though, so you could be modular even at this level.)
All this just made the software harder to develop and maintain, and we had to jump through hoops to keep the engine "neutral."
During the hard-times at Logos we were forced to focus in order to survive. And we realized that our core customers are Christian pastors who study the Bible. So we focused on these customers, while still trying to be inoffensive.
When we asked a design firm to help us with a web site, we told them we didn't want a new logo. But they felt so strongly that we needed a refresh, they designed three new logos for us. And once we saw the iconic magnifying glass with the plus sign turned into a cross -- echoing both the standard search icon and our focus on the Bible -- we knew it was perfect.
As for limiting our market... since we've focused our marketing and our efforts, we've seen sales increase dramatically and kept (and improved) our relationship with JPS, as well as an even broader range of Christian publishers and denominations.
As for "Scholar's" having non-scholarly stuff... the majority of purchasers of Scholar's probably wouldn't meet your definition of a scholar -- they're people who want to grow in that direction, though, and they indicate that they appreciate the library as it is. The "pure" scholar's package is "Original Languages Library", and it sells very few copies. But it's probably what you'd prefer.
Since the "non-scholarly" content in Scholar's really doesn't cost much, I think it's not a big deal. And I'm a "big library" kind of person -- I just read the stuff I want to read, but I like having everything available. If you want a "clean shelf" uncluttered by the light-weight stuff, though, just go with OLL.
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Thanks for responding to my thread-jack Bob. As for me, I've had my say and gotten it out of my system [:#]
To the guy who posted it, I'm now using the nice Bible+magnifying glass icon above. Any way you could throw some Greek or Hebrew on the cover?
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton
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I don't know how to make an icon file, and since I drew this one by hand I just had to make it a .png. But what about something more like this...
As I have said before I am currently using this as my icon. It would be cool if you added greek text on the Bible pages and the Logos name in the magnifying glass.
or another great alternative is to have"The Written Word of God" in the Bible at the top of the text . Then have it say and Logos in the magnifying glass. Which would clearly show the use of the software. Or you can leave it alone cause I love it anyway.
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When we asked a design firm to help us with a web site, we told them we didn't want a new logo. But they felt so strongly that we needed a refresh, they designed three new logos for us. And once we saw the iconic magnifying glass with the plus sign turned into a cross -- echoing both the standard search icon and our focus on the Bible -- we knew it was perfect.
[Y]
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Thanks for the Logos history Bob. I had wondered before if anyone ever thought of using the Logos engine for other kinds of content.
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Alright I think that I am going to be done for a little bit...Its just so much fun tho![;)]
Icon for Mac 1.
And of course Logos 4!
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As for limiting our market... since we've focused our marketing and our efforts, we've seen sales increase dramatically and kept (and improved) our relationship with JPS, as well as an even broader range of Christian publishers and denominations.
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