[Design-team] Default Theme Thoughts

[Elad]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Chris Beiser <ctbeiser at gmail.com> wrote:

> I understand the sentiment; it would be kinda cool to have a distinct
> 'Fedora' visual style. But. Keep in mind first that Fedora is the only
> major linux distro I know of that uses Gnome 3.x out of the box; there's
> not exactly that much additional individuality that could be gained (at
> least for now) by creating a new skin. Furthermore, the Gnome designers
> really have been working pretty hard on Adwaita; I'm pretty confident we'd
> have trouble out-designing them on all the theming; most everything in
> Gnome 3 works as a harmonious whole, down to the typeface, and if we wanted
> to change something (lets say, the titlebars), I think we'd have a lot of
> trouble making everything else fit without redesigning everything. If a
> Fedora user wanted people to notice their distro, they could use a default
> wallpaper, and if they wanted to make it look different, they could install
> a theme, but I don't think it would make sense to fragment the Gnome 3
> experience and slight all the fantastic Gnome designers in order to make
> Fedora look a little different after install.
>
> --
> Chris Beiser
>
> On Monday, December 12, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Ryan Gauger wrote:
>
> Design team,
>
> We do many things, one of the many things we do is create and choose the
> default wallpapers for the next release of Fedora. I thought (thinking
> about Ubuntu) that it would be really cool for Fedora to have its own
> default theme, possibly keeping the default GNOME theme as an option, but
> using the default Fedora theme by default. In my opinion, it would be
> really cool for Fedora to have its own unique theme that maybe, possibly
> changes every three or four releases, making small, supplemental changes.
> This way, when a Linux user looks at the Fedora desktop without the
> wallpaper giving it away, that user would know right away that that
> computer was running Fedora. Again, not really needed, but would be really
> nice, possibly very fun to create the themes too. Now, I will shut up since
> I have no clue as to how to make a theme, but there is probably at least
> one person in this team who does know how to make themes. Might be, also
> might not be a good idea. Thanks!!!
>
> ---Ryan
>
> Sent from my iPod
>
>
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We are going to stick with GNOME's upstream design. You are free to work on
whatever theme you like, but it won't be default.
-- 
-Elad Alfassa.
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