some artwork needs to be replaced...?

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Fri Nov 18 13:48:15 UTC 2005


+1

Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
> Hi all...
> 
> before going any further, let me just say that I'm not out to start a 
> flame war or put hard working people down. I want to bring this forward 
> to ensure everybody's favorite distro is appealing as it deserves "out 
> of the box".
> 
> 
> Am I alone in thinking that some of the icons and the default mouse 
> cursors appearing in rawhide could really use a redesign or should just 
> be replaced with something else?
> 
> Perhaps these are only temporarily, which i really hope, but just in 
> case they are not, i wanted to see if perhaps it's just me.
> 
> The two main things that have come to my attention (mainly because it 
> pretty much hits you on login) are the new fedora logos and the new 
> default mouse cursor theme.
> 
> 
> This is my opinion on the mouse cursor theme:
> 
> ** the default mouse cursor theme should be neutral (no colors, subtle 
> animation), good looking and functional.
> 
> Although used by some other distributions, Jimmac's jimmac0 (if that's 
> indeed the right name) mouse cursors makes for a very nice choice for 
> the default mouse cursor theme.
> 
> 
> This is my opinion regarding the icons
> 
> ** all the icons appearing on the default desktop, should be 
> informational, good looking and in a consistent design - Just like all 
> of the icons in the bluecurve theme.
> 
> The new fedora-logo does not fit in with the rest and IMHO should be 
> either reconsidered or redesigned.
> 
> 
> I hope I'm not the only one feeling like this.
> And I hope we will be able to have all this sorted out before FC5 is 
> released.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> /Thomas
> 




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