On Fri, 2020-04-17 at 15:13 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > Of the two, I loved FC6 more, because I thought the way the Fedora > logo was used throughout the artwork was really well-done. And it > conveyed what I felt Fedora was about very well: Fedorans are the > community, and the community is part of our DNA. Later Fedora releases > did a good job providing a coherent theme based on codenames. > > For the past few years, we've lost a lot of visual differentiation as > we've scaled back or killed off aspects of our unique per-release or > project identity embodied in the distribution. There were even a > couple of times where we went with what I felt to be uselessly bland > artwork that I thought made Fedora look like a non-entity. > > The last few releases have had some interesting wallpapers, but we > never quite got the same visual appeal that we had before. > > And to Michael's point about Ubuntu's branding, they have a set of > design principles that they use to simultaneously present "Ubuntu" and > the Ubuntu "release" by leveraging their codename scheme and imbuing > it in the artwork in creative ways. That's not a thing we do in Fedora > anymore... :( None of this is free, it needs people to show up and do the work. Just as with coding or package management, there is very little value in saying "boy, I sure wish someone else would do all this cool stuff I've thought of". If you want it to happen, get together with like-minded folks and do it... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
