[Design-team] Fedora 15 GNOME Default Wallpaper

[Nicu Buculei]

On 12/21/2010 11:14 PM, Camilo Mesias wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:32 PM, twohot  wrote:
>> No. One default can be better than another.  Even if you take a
>> subjective approach and take a poll.  You'll get a clear winner ...
>> subjective as the result may appear, you have a more acceptable art.
>> It is important to provide a generally accepted winner than a winner
>> accepted by a few.
>
> I think the point is that the Fedora background and the Gnome one are
> both likely to be technically excellent backgrounds. Users would get
> along fine with either. A choice is more likely to be made on
> religious grounds and any poll you take will be heavily influenced by
> the opinions of the people polled.

There is nothing religious here, is all about identity, marketing and 
strategy.

> If a user choice is really such a horrible UI then someone will have
> to decide on a default. The person responsible will risk alienating
> some people. The 'losers' will have to swallow their pride and we can
> all move on to something that users will actually care about.

Ideally we would NOT vote (yes, I also think this is a bad way to make 
the decision) but decide by consensus. We as a team tried to operate 
this way all along (F10 was a bad exception we don't want to repeat).


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