[Design-team] GNOME background in Fedora 15

[Onyeibo Oku]

On 12/19/2010 03:02 AM, Jim Campbell wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> 2010/12/18 Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org
> <mailto:duffy at fedoraproject.org>>
>
>     On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 02:16 +0100, Martin Sourada wrote:
>      > No, no, you misunderstood. I don't imply we should ship to gnome
>     spins.
>      > We should either ship in F15 gnome as pristine as possible or
>     just do it
>      > they way we do it usually. Neither of these should of course affect
>      > other spins and IMHO also not DVD install.
>
>     Why? Again, you are proposing this all or nothing thinking and I
>     completely do not understand it. Can you please explain?
>
>      > PS: I think we should slowly kill this thread, I'm running "out of
>      > ammo", your arguments also haven't been strong enough to make me
>     change
>      > my mind and I wouldn't want to make this into a flame...
>
>     We have to make a decision.
>
>     ~m
>
>
>
> I think that the Fedora Project is in a good spot here in that the
> default Gnome3 wallpaper is a shade of blue that coincides nicely with
> the colors that Fedora uses anyway.
>
> The same cannot be said of OpenSUSE, though.
>
> Given the hubbub that is in Fedora where there isn't really a conflict
> of colors, but other distros would likely have a conflict with the
> colors, would upstream Gnome be willing to compromise on this?  Would
> upstream be willing to allow distros to create stripe-based wallpapers
> that include the same design pattern, same degree of saturation, same
> texture, etc., but use different distro-specific colors?  After all,
> could we really expect OpenSUSE to ship a blue theme?  So much of their
> artwork (website, icon set, metacity theme, etc.) is green.  And I have
> never seen a blue gecko.  : (
>
> If we were able get a compromise like this, I think that there would be
> greater likelihood of buy-in from the various the distros. They would be
> representing and celebrating Gnome, but would retain key portions of
> their own distro "self." Perhaps even Ubuntu would be willing to ship an
> aubergine stripe-based theme as part of their wallpaper set (though, of
> course, not as their default, as they are using Unity).
>
> This could also potentially benefit Gnome, as they could do something
> like, "Different Colors, One Gnome," or something like that.  The Gnome
> brand identity could be visible in the stripes, while the distros get
> their identity in the colors.
>
> Jim
>

That's what I thought too
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Oku Onyeibo
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