On 04/16/2011 05:02 PM, Robyn Bergeron wrote: > > GNOME 3 is an ingredient in Fedora - not the other way around. I > wouldn't expect that, if, for example, there was a GNOME 3 Remix of > Fedora, that there would be any trace of Fedora branding anywhere. > Fedora is the major ingredient in a Fedora Remix - but not the end > product. Sadly, and I think mistakenly, the GNOME ingredient is > theoretically no longer modifiable. I don't know that that prevents us > from bringing in another ingredient to help us retain the Fedora flavor > that we know and love. I have bad news for you Robyn, the plan to change the ingredient-final product roles is old, public and followed: http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/2010/08/01/shell-yes/ > Is trying to hack in a logo the right answer? Probably not. Is adding > that logo into the corner going to really going to destroy the "user > experience"? I can't say anything more than "probably not" to that > either. Can we brainstorm, at this point in the release cycle, about > some way that is more permanent than a browser start page, to keep logo > and brand impressions on people, and then implement it without impacting > the schedule? Probably not. Is a wallpaper, which changes from release > to release and has no identifiable logo and changeable by the user, in > combination with a browser direct to a start page that people see for a > few seconds, assuming they don't change it, enough to keep our brand in > people's minds? I don't know. Does the loss of a piece of real estate > that constantly shows our logo diminish the value of our branding? I > think so. It may be the right answer a serious talk about what is the default download we offer? For the sake of ease of use, we selected and promoted a single download prominently on the website, and that was the Desktop Spin, a spin that is under tight control of a small, opaque and out of our infrastructure (mail, irc, bugzilla) group. We pretty much asked for it. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
