Fedora Artwork

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 8/30/06, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> Paul W. Frields (stickster at gmail.com) said:
> > > > 1) The default artwork must be locked at the feature freeze, modulo
> > > >    bugfixes. Fixing an icon or two's orientation is a bugfix. Changing
> > > >    the theme or icon set is not.
> > > >
> > > >    Rationale: At that point, people start making screenshots, install
> > > >    guides, release notes, etc. In fact, I believe there are FC6 documents
> > > >    already mostly frozen.
> > >
> > > FC6 specific documents? We dont really have any besides the release
> > > notes.
> >
> > Um, the Installation Guide is one.  Having worked on that all last
> > weekend, I can tell you it's FC6 specific. :-)  But like our other
> > documents, it only undergoes a temporary freeze for our translators'
> > sake for a short period before publication.  Then it's open for business
> > again.  Any artwork changes can be screenshotted into the new one.
>
> Ah, I misread. I'm still leery about changing this after the feature
> freeze.
>

I agree. I would prefer to see a good first impression with a
fulfilled working icon set than one that hasn't been baked for a
couple of months testing. From what I have been told from Apple
people.. icons and other things are slushed well before other features
so that a lot of usability testing can be done right. I think that for
FC7 this is one thing that should be tracked in the schedule.


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