On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 23:20 +0000, Martin Sourada wrote: > I don't think that's the right question in case of art. Art is basically > about doing something new, or improving something old, simply said. With > Echo we are doing both - posing ourselves as bluecurve successor, using > same metaphors as gnome or oxygen as much as possible (to not confuse > user), but developing our own style. We are trying to make it default in > Fedora, for one because we think it would improve Fedora looks, second > we think users might profit from consistent icon set throughout whole > distro (not in Fedora 10 yet, since KDE isn't covered enough), Up until this point you had a pretty good answer to the question. > third it > is developed by people in Fedora Art Team and fourth, with every new > release of Fedora there are questions why Echo is still not default, > usually accompanied by "prediction" that it will always stay in the > "next time" state ;-) Those feel like "Because I did it", or "because we can" answers, not really answers to the question. But with the first set you actually have a fairly good argument. How the work you did can interact with upstreams as well as accomplishing your goal is the interesting part. This is what Fedora is really about. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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