Okay, this is understandable. So how can a user distinguish between Fedora and any other Gnome distro, if there isn't a logo? On 04/15/2011 04:18 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 16:10 +0200, KristÃf Timur wrote: >> Every desktop environment that Fedora provides has Fedora branding. >> Could you please elaborate why the shell should be an exception? > The shell is not a desktop environment. GNOME 3 is. And we already > compromised by allowing that to be branded via the background. > > There is no rule, either written down or implicit, that everything that > puts a panel-like bar on the top of your monitor has to have a Fedora > logo in the left corner. > > As I said, this kind of branding was somewhat expected with gnome 2, > which was shipped with the expectation that distributions would pick a > suitable theme (or let users pick their own), background, icons, etc, > and would decide the number of panels, and on a suitable default > arrangement of items on them (or again, let the users pick). > > GNOME 3 is very explicitly going away from that 'tool box' approach. We > want to provide a recognizable experience, that is nice and polished by > default, and does not need 'improvement' or 'branding' by each > distribution. You can see that in many things: we removed the theme > capplet, the shell does not support themes, etc etc. > > So yes, GNOME 3 is very different from GNOME 2 in that respect. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
