On 12/19/2010 03:02 AM, Jim Campbell wrote: > Hi All, > > 2010/12/18 MÃirÃn Duffy <duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> > > On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 02:16 +0100, Martin Sourada wrote: > > No, no, you misunderstood. I don't imply we should ship to gnome > spins. > > We should either ship in F15 gnome as pristine as possible or > just do it > > they way we do it usually. Neither of these should of course affect > > other spins and IMHO also not DVD install. > > Why? Again, you are proposing this all or nothing thinking and I > completely do not understand it. Can you please explain? > > > PS: I think we should slowly kill this thread, I'm running "out of > > ammo", your arguments also haven't been strong enough to make me > change > > my mind and I wouldn't want to make this into a flame... > > We have to make a decision. > > ~m > > > > I think that the Fedora Project is in a good spot here in that the > default Gnome3 wallpaper is a shade of blue that coincides nicely with > the colors that Fedora uses anyway. > > The same cannot be said of OpenSUSE, though. > > Given the hubbub that is in Fedora where there isn't really a conflict > of colors, but other distros would likely have a conflict with the > colors, would upstream Gnome be willing to compromise on this? Would > upstream be willing to allow distros to create stripe-based wallpapers > that include the same design pattern, same degree of saturation, same > texture, etc., but use different distro-specific colors? After all, > could we really expect OpenSUSE to ship a blue theme? So much of their > artwork (website, icon set, metacity theme, etc.) is green. And I have > never seen a blue gecko. : ( > > If we were able get a compromise like this, I think that there would be > greater likelihood of buy-in from the various the distros. They would be > representing and celebrating Gnome, but would retain key portions of > their own distro "self." Perhaps even Ubuntu would be willing to ship an > aubergine stripe-based theme as part of their wallpaper set (though, of > course, not as their default, as they are using Unity). > > This could also potentially benefit Gnome, as they could do something > like, "Different Colors, One Gnome," or something like that. The Gnome > brand identity could be visible in the stripes, while the distros get > their identity in the colors. > > Jim > That's what I thought too -- Oku Onyeibo http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:twohot _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
