Notes on games spin

Christopher Stone chris.stone at gmail.com
Fri Sep 21 06:09:29 UTC 2007


On 9/20/07, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro> wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Nicu Buculei wrote:
> >> I would be against this: a Fedora spin is Fedora, so I think it should
> >> have the same look and feel. IMO, it cold have at maximum a customized
> >> version of the default background but still based on the default
> >> background.
> >
> > Well the KDE and GNOME spins of Fedora have already different themes. I
> > don't see why a games spin can't have a separate look and feel too. I am
> > just of the opinion that spins shouldn't be just a collection of
> > packages and shouldn't acquire their own "personality" on some small but
> > highly visible changes.
>
> A derivative looking so different compared with the main distro as
> http://ubuntustudio.org/screenshots is something personally I am not
> interested working on.

I havn't seen the default theme for Fedora 8, but if the Fedora
artwork team can tweak it slightly to give a games feel, I think that
would be cool.  I would not be in favor of a completely different
theme, but would support slight tweaks to the main theme.




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