From: "Nicu Buculei" <nicu_fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Fedora Design Team" <design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 7:51 AM Subject: Re: [Design-team] GNOME background in Fedora 15 > On 12/20/2010 09:18 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: >> >> That's continuity within a release, yes. What I'm saying is that there's >> very little continuity of the artwork from release to release *other* >> than >> the color; some are more abstract, some are less, some are sharper (like >> F-14), some are more soft-focus (like F-13). > > We owe a lot of thanks for this to our friends is the RHDT who killed > identity projects like Nodoka and Echo and now will completely change > the desktop theme to a dark one with F15. While I'm unaware of the catalysts behind the unpopularity of those projects, I certainly agree that they are not in the list of most people's favourites. One of the first things I do when I install Fedora is to change the Icon theme to either Elemetary or Buuf (well, buuf tends towards Ubuntu but its quality is outstanding ... so I endure the colour differences). Now with F15 shipping with predominantly black UI, as seen on the Gnome-Shell/GDM mockups, those themes will drop further down the list. I don't see them blending into the new graphics and that worries me. If Fedora is defaulting to Gnome3 on F15, then I think we need to pay attention to a befitting Icon them project. I still think that area will score of huge points if we put in the same kind of energy we spend on wallpaper designs --- without deterring from the Wallpaper design traditions. I'll test-run the Gnome-shell with the Echo theme and see how that works out. >> What I intended to say is that given that, I would think that a random >> outside observer could look at *any* distro that has a blue, >> non-photograph >> background, and think "hm, must be Fedora", unless they already know >> which >> sort of blue backgrounds Fedora has chosen. > > It would give me a warm smile seeing this happening. +1 to that. > -- > nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ > design-team mailing list > design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team > _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
