On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <xonker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As I alluded to in a previous post, I suspect this is a reaction to > what appears to be RHAT making a decision by fiat and people feeling > upset about that. This may be legitimate, but at the same time, RHAT > puts in ridiculous amounts of resources into Fedora so maybe it'd be > equally valid to get over it and do something positive instead of > people digging in heels over something that is really, deeply trivial. Let me reiterate a few things here, for the record. First of all, the decision of the wallpaper for the Gnome desktop in Fedora 15 was not done by fiat. It was a request from Gnome developers (several of which also happen to be Red Hat employees) to help with the marketing efforts around Gnome 3. Their original proposal was to use the Gnome wallpaper for the Fedora 15 release. Obviously that request met with some resistance, and in the end the Fedora Design Team and the Gnome developers agreed to a compromise, which would be a mixture of the Gnome stripes with the Fedora birds motifs. While neither side of the argument got exactly what they wanted, I felt the compromise was better than either of the alternatives. To portray this as "Red Hat told Fedora they had to use such-and-such a wallpaper" is not only incorrect, it's also unfair both to the Fedora Design Team and the Gnome developers, as it paints both groups in the worst possible light. (Why free software/open source enthusiasts always tend to assume the worst in others is a much broader topic for another day.) -- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
