Okay, this is understandable.
So how can a user distinguish between Fedora and any other Gnome distro,
if there isn't a logo?
On 04/15/2011 04:18 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 16:10 +0200, Kristóf Timur wrote:
> Every desktop environment that Fedora provides has Fedora branding.
> Could you please elaborate why the shell should be an exception?
The shell is not a desktop environment. GNOME 3 is. And we already
compromised by allowing that to be branded via the background.
There is no rule, either written down or implicit, that everything that
puts a panel-like bar on the top of your monitor has to have a Fedora
logo in the left corner.
As I said, this kind of branding was somewhat expected with gnome 2,
which was shipped with the expectation that distributions would pick a
suitable theme (or let users pick their own), background, icons, etc,
and would decide the number of panels, and on a suitable default
arrangement of items on them (or again, let the users pick).
GNOME 3 is very explicitly going away from that 'tool box' approach. We
want to provide a recognizable experience, that is nice and polished by
default, and does not need 'improvement' or 'branding' by each
distribution. You can see that in many things: we removed the theme
capplet, the shell does not support themes, etc etc.
So yes, GNOME 3 is very different from GNOME 2 in that respect.
_______________________________________________
design-team mailing list
design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team