On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 18:11 -0500, Ricky Zhou wrote: > On 2010-12-17 11:03:39 AM, MÃirÃn Duffy wrote: > > If we as a team choose to consider Owen's request, there won't be brand > > confusion between Fedora and GNOME - the Fedora brand will be strong > > from the website / DVD sleeve through the install and bootup process > > (Fedora splash graphics for the installer & firstboot, syslinux & > > grub... Fedora logo for plymouth) and when it gets to the desktop part > > it'll be neutral... not GNOME. Although I'm think the default webpage in > > the browser will be a Fedora start page too, so Fedora branding doesn't > > quite end at the desktop. > I don't think there will necessarily be brand confusion, but I do think > that our brand would be slightly weakened if this proposal passes. One > of the reasons that I always stick with the default wallpaper (aside > from how great it looks) is so that anybody who even gets a glance of my > screen can tell that I'm running Fedora, and maybe even strike up a > conversation about it :-). While all of the other branding is still > very important, the wallpaper is really the only piece that will be seen > by other people, and I don't want to lose that by default. If our proposal is accepted, you'll definitely have the option of switching to the Fedora wallpaper with 3 clicks of the mouse. I think it also will be very clear to anybody looking at your Fedora 15 desktop, whatever the wallpaper, that: - It's not Windows 7 - It's not OS X Snow Leopard - It's not Ubuntu Unity Do most of your conversations really center on why Fedora is better than, say, Debian? - Owen _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
