On Friday, December 17, 2010 08:10:44 am Nicu Buculei wrote: > 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? I'm not against even making theme based on Gnome/KDE stripes - it should work for both Gnome 3 and other desktops and still retains our Identity. Gnome 3 would have stripes based theme but with Fedora feel there - win and profit for both projects! Last time I proposed it, it wasn't accepted but still I think this can work. It could bring some "personality" to spins - to combine upstream themes with Fedora ones. But it involves much more work. R. -- Jaroslav ÅeznÃk <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 602 797 774 Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/ _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
