(sorry for initially having accidentally sent this mail to ros-general instead of ros-dev)
The ReactOS logo is an ugly design.
Until you manage to get that wonky off-balance thing you prefer to be accepted as the official logo, whether it is ugly or not is not relevant. There is a procedure for changing established things. Your method of just going ahead and changing things without asking is not only rude but wrong. If you want to change things, you will have to go through me first. If you have a problem with me, you have a problem with changing things. So I suggest you consider your options.
Also, it's far too complex to be used as a start button image and looks out
of place. It's a bloody orb with wisps (rings) around it. Complex my eye.
The official Windows logo isn't used on the start button. A neater version
is used in the same way.
A "neater version". You mean the shadow? I have employed a similar way to make the icon clear at 16x16:
http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/4972/startthingie3yn.png
As you can see, both with Windows and with ReactOS, it's practically the same thing. I'm beginning to get the idea you are making arguments up for the sake of having arguments in your offence.
This logo is the original ReactOS start menu logo and should be kept IMO.
It's as much a placeholder as the "original" Everaldo icons were.
mf