Branding

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 03:48:47PM +0100, Kalev Lember wrote:
> On 11/18/2014 03:16 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > OK, a lot of quick action on this, on the part of several people
> > yesterday and this morning.  Here's what we discovered:
> > 
> > Package bug:  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1161637
> > Upstream git: https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/background-logo-extension.git/
> > 
> > (1) The SRPM in the bug appears to be *newer* than git (includes
> > e.g. prefs.js, control utility).  Maybe something wasn't pushed?
> > However, the SRPM seems like it should work.
> 
> Excellent, thanks for looking into this! Florian was waiting on approved
> design before doing a final upstream release and now that we have it, he
> should be able to do the release.
> 
> > (2) We need to package a wordmark, since that works visually better
> > than the Fedora infinity-bubble logomark.  Also, from the mockups, an
> > < 100% opacity was desirable.  Ryan has sent that on to Spot to add to
> > fedora-logos.
> 
> Great -- we'll need a new fedora-logos build for the installer branding
> anyway.

Correct, I *think* we're waiting on that from Spot.

> > (3) The package needs a .gschema.override file to point to the new
> > logo.  That seems like the right thing to do for a distro-specific
> > change like this.  I wasn't able to find fmuellner on line yesterday
> > or this morning, so given the freeze, Stephen Gallagher was planning
> > to help us with packaging since he's a provenpackager.  I pasted this:
> > http://fpaste.org/151778/16319651/
> 
> It's a fedora-specific package anyway, I think we should be able to
> avoid the overrides and just default to the correct logo. Florian, what
> do you say?
> 
> Another thing we'll need is to include an override somewhere to enable
> the extension by default. fedora-release-workstation seems like an
> appropriate place -- I'll send a patch to dgilmore a bit later today
> that adds the override if nobody comes up with a better way of doing it.

I don't know another way.

> > If anyone has concerns or suggestions, please add them ASAP... the
> > freeze is on today, so we may end up needing a QA exception to get
> > this stuff done.
> 
> Yes, we're already frozen now, definitely need a QA exception.

I put the Fedora package review bug on the tracker for proposed
exceptions.  It sounds like we need another bug for the
fedora-release-workstation changes -- that will make it easiest to
track I think.

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