[Design-team] Gnome-shell extension that adds a Fedora logo

[Owen Taylor]

On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 23:50 +0200, Timur Kristóf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the positive reacitons so far! :)
> 
> I've sent the package for review, here is the link:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696357
> 
> Responding to Fab's comment:
> 
>  > That sounds like something we should consider to ship by default.
> I was kind of hoping that someone would say that. :)

Whether this package is included in Fedora is presumably only determined
by whether it's free software, meets the Fedora logo usage guidelines
and so forth.

But I want to be very clear here (and sorry to have to introduce a
negative reaction) that this cannot be part of the default Fedora
install set.

The Activities button is the central point of the GNOME UI. Putting a
Fedora logo there:

 - Makes it unclear whether there is one click target or two
 - Separate the "Activities" word from the hot corner.
 - Creates a discrepancy between the GNOME documentation and
   instructional videos and the Fedora experience.

If a Fedora logo appears to the Left of activities, many users will go
to the corner and careful click on Activities instead of taking
advantage of Fitt's law and discovering the hot corner. 

(Compare, on a Mac, the Apple menu is a separate click target from the
File menu next to it. The start menu in old versions of Windows which
was logo + text was styled to look like a single button so is not a
valid point of comparison.)

>  > I've also been thinking about the fact that the only place someone
>  > sees a Fedora logo on F15 is a few split-seconds when Plymouth is
>  > booted a nd that that isn't good at all for our branding.
> This is 100% agreed.
> I have no idea why Fedora 15 misses any Fedora branding at the moment,
> but we definitely shouldn't let it be released this way. As it is now, F15
> doesn't feel like being Fedora at all.
> (I'm not sure why the desktop team decided this way.)

I think the plan is to go back to having the Fedora logo on the GDM
screen.

- Owen