On 12/17/2010 01:54 AM, Owen Taylor wrote: > > We want Fedora to be the showcase for GNOME 3 and to be a good example > to other distributions about how to package GNOME 3. So, to go along > with the release splash for Fedora 15, we'd like to make special request > that for this release we use the GNOME background in the Fedora GNOME > packages and hence in the default Fedora desktop. As I understood the opinions in the latest team IRC meeting, blog comments, mailing list discussions and direct contacts with community members, the general opinion is such a move would be detrimental to Fedora's own image and of little use for GNOME promotion. > I want to be clear that this is not in any way saying that we don't like > the Fedora backgrounds ... the recent Fedora backgrounds are great, and > keep on getting cleaner and more professional looking every release. The > issue is rather a question of trying to provide a single look for the > GNOME 3 release rather than a series of looks, one per distribution. Can you name at least one other *relevant* distro that will use the same background as default? Especially if they know this may be *our* default? > * What about the rest of the artwork? > > I think trying to adapt the entire set of artwork in Fedora to have > different looks for different spins is probably more confusing then > anything else. The GNOME default background matches pretty well with > the Fedora look, so it's not going to be jarring to switch to it > after seeing the standard Fedora artwork for boot. Case in point: the GDM background would be the same as the GNOME background or as the general-purpose background used by all the other spins? Which one of the spins will have an inconsistent experience? The same about the Plymouth colors. We are supposed to use *vertical stripes* or not in GRUB, Anaconda, firstboot etc.? How about website identity? -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
