[In the news] Fedora and GNOME branding drama: Missing the big picture

inode0 inode0 at gmail.com
Sat Apr 23 22:38:03 UTC 2011


On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 5:21 PM, John Mackay <mackay3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anybody asked Gnome about a reasson why distros cant differentitate from
> one another anymore through the desktop?
> This is just like buying a DELL(logo) computer, wich it has and INTEL(logo)
> or (AMD) inside.
> Then you get FEDORA(logo) with Gnome(logo) or KDE(logo) inside.
> It's completely non natural for a component to ban identification of the
> whole; it would be akin if fedora banned any gnome logo from the desktop
> presentation and they couldnt do anything about it.
> Is Gnome talking about this? I bet Fedora isnt the only distro not liking
> this, gnome's forums should be on fire right now.

Fedora is likely the only distribution that will go along with it.
I'll be surprised if anyone else does.

John


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