On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 09:51:10AM +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: > On 07/28/2009 07:06 PM, Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira wrote: > > Em 28-07-2009 12:42, Máirín Duffy escreveu: > >> > >> I put together a quick proposal based on Nicu's photoshoot of the > >> mosaics in Bucharest. Actually it's sort of similar to the F6 wallpaper, > >> which I realized afterwards. :( But maybe it would be a good > >> supplementary wallpaper. Here it is: > >> > >> https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/0/0b/Fedora12_mosaic-glow_mo.png > > Wow! you hit me big time with nostalgia about Mola's FC6 design, which I > liked *a lot* at the time (but this one is much better from an usability > point of view). > > > Good, but the effects are very similar to the Fedora 6 default wallpaper. > > But this is not a bad thing. We always said some interesting concepts > may be revisited later (like F7's starry night, moon or flying), just > not in the subsequent releases. > And in various (unscientific) pools, FC6's DNA theme is considered an > all time favorite by many users. I've read that quite a bit myself. I have no idea how it fares in usability measurements but I know several people who hung on to their FC6 backgrounds up until around F9 or later. That's all anecdotal, but suffice it to say that having a hint of something we used in a different way before isn't, by definition, a bad thing. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
