On Friday, December 17, 2010 04:48:00 pm Owen Taylor wrote: > On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 10:26 +0100, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > > 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. > > In some ways, using the stripes background as the main Fedora 15 theme > is attractive to me if the design team wanted to go that route. It gives > good consistency and maximum impact. > > But it also seems a bit weird. If we're making Fedora 15 all stripey to > celebrate GNOME 3 being in Fedora 15, isn't it weird if you download the > XFCE or KDE spins and don't get GNOME 3 and still see all the stripes? > > I'm also expecting it would make it much harder for me to make my case > for other distributions to also use the GNOME background as the default > background. Other distributions already are doing it this way for Plasma Desktop! Even one based on stripes theme [1] - it does not work for us as logo is involved in design. So it should be much more easier to convince them to do it than just "throw away your brand/identity". For more info, see [2], [3]. Quoting Pinoheiro - "We don't want to kill each of the distributions own branding, we want to share, I would not slap a KDE logo on top of your distribution logo, nothing like that. What we are after is creating something that is recognizable across the room something people can see as recognizable, a "hey that is pretty and I have seen it some ware else". I would do my best to keep a strong visual connection to the specific distro brand but in a way that one brand doesn't kill the other." You can find it even in Design team mailing list archive. Jaroslav [1] http://ivan.fomentgroup.org/blog/2010/08/12/distribution-branding-and- stripes/ [2] http://pinheiro-kde.blogspot.com/2009/06/sharing-brand.html [3] http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/06/building-brand-together.html > - Owen > > > _______________________________________________ > design-team mailing list > design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team -- 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
