[Design-team] GNOME background in Fedora 15

[Martin Sourada]

On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 18:53 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 18:11 -0500, Ricky Zhou wrote:
> > On 2010-12-17 11:03:39 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> > > If we as a team choose to consider Owen's request, there won't be brand
> > > confusion between Fedora and GNOME - the Fedora brand will be strong
> > > from the website / DVD sleeve through the install and bootup process
> > > (Fedora splash graphics for the installer & firstboot, syslinux &
> > > grub... Fedora logo for plymouth) and when it gets to the desktop part
> > > it'll be neutral... not GNOME. Although I'm think the default webpage in
> > > the browser will be a Fedora start page too, so Fedora branding doesn't
> > > quite end at the desktop.
> > I don't think there will necessarily be brand confusion, but I do think
> > that our brand would be slightly weakened if this proposal passes.  One
> > of the reasons that I always stick with the default wallpaper (aside
> > from how great it looks) is so that anybody who even gets a glance of my
> > screen can tell that I'm running Fedora, and maybe even strike up a
> > conversation about it :-).  While all of the other branding is still
> > very important, the wallpaper is really the only piece that will be seen
> > by other people, and I don't want to lose that by default.
> 
> If our proposal is accepted, you'll definitely have the option of
> switching to the Fedora wallpaper with 3 clicks of the mouse.
> 
> I think it also will be very clear to anybody looking at your Fedora 15
> desktop, whatever the wallpaper, that:
> 
>  - It's not Windows 7
>  - It's not OS X Snow Leopard
>  - It's not Ubuntu Unity
> 
Will it be clear that:
      * It's not OpenSUSE?
      * It's not Debian?

Ubuntu isn't the only other major distro and when it comes to community
driven effort, Debian is IMHO our main competitor.

Martin
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