On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 04:22:03PM +0200, KristÃf Timur wrote: >> Okay, this is understandable. >> So how can a user distinguish between Fedora and any other Gnome distro, >> if there isn't a logo? > > There's no requirement to re-brand upstream stuff. ÂAfter all, we > don't change the appearance or logos in Eclipse, GIMP, Inkscape, etc. > > I think it would be more useful to work on something like the > start.fedoraproject.org site, and have that page be a better resource > for building brand. Â(If you look at it currently, you'll find that > it's improved, but still has a lot of room for improvement.) > > After all, this start page is part of the new browser tabs in Firefox > that the vast majority of users will open. ÂIt has more room for > meaningful content than a simple logo on a menu. ÂPutting worthwhile, > substantial material where people will see it is more effective for > building our brand than trying to force an old idiom into a design > that doesn't need it. > > -- > Paul W. Frields                Âhttp://paul.frields.org/ > Âgpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 Â5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 > Âhttp://redhat.com/  - Â- Â- Â-  http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ > Red Hat Summit/JBossWorld -- Register now! Âhttp://.theredhatsummit.com > _______________________________________________ > design-team mailing list > design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team > I agree with Paul about start.fpo, we also have a wiki page for this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Start.fpo_redesign (feel free to add your thoughts) And we talked about it in the last websites team meeting as well: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-websites/2011-03-30/fedora-websites.2011-03-30-15.00.html -- -Elad. _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
