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

[Elad]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 04:22:03PM +0200, Kristóf Timur wrote:
>> Okay, this is understandable.
>> So how can a user distinguish between Fedora and any other Gnome distro,
>> if there isn't a logo?
>
> There's no requirement to re-brand upstream stuff.  After all, we
> don't change the appearance or logos in Eclipse, GIMP, Inkscape, etc.
>
> I think it would be more useful to work on something like the
> start.fedoraproject.org site, and have that page be a better resource
> for building brand.  (If you look at it currently, you'll find that
> it's improved, but still has a lot of room for improvement.)
>
> After all, this start page is part of the new browser tabs in Firefox
> that the vast majority of users will open.  It has more room for
> meaningful content than a simple logo on a menu.  Putting worthwhile,
> substantial material where people will see it is more effective for
> building our brand than trying to force an old idiom into a design
> that doesn't need it.
>
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I agree with Paul about start.fpo, we also have a wiki page for this:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Start.fpo_redesign (feel free to add
your thoughts)
And we talked about it in the last websites team meeting as well:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-websites/2011-03-30/fedora-websites.2011-03-30-15.00.html

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-Elad.