On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Paul W. Frields <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 04:22:03PM +0200, Kristóf Timur wrote: >> Okay, this is understandable. >> So how can a user distinguish between Fedora and any other Gnome distro, >> if there isn't a logo? > > There's no requirement to re-brand upstream stuff. After all, we > don't change the appearance or logos in Eclipse, GIMP, Inkscape, etc. > > I think it would be more useful to work on something like the > start.fedoraproject.org site, and have that page be a better resource > for building brand. (If you look at it currently, you'll find that > it's improved, but still has a lot of room for improvement.) > > After all, this start page is part of the new browser tabs in Firefox > that the vast majority of users will open. It has more room for > meaningful content than a simple logo on a menu. Putting worthwhile, > substantial material where people will see it is more effective for > building our brand than trying to force an old idiom into a design > that doesn't need it. > > -- > Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ > gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 > http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ > Red Hat Summit/JBossWorld -- Register now! http://.theredhatsummit.com > _______________________________________________ > design-team mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team > I agree with Paul about start.fpo, we also have a wiki page for this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Start.fpo_redesign (feel free to add your thoughts) And we talked about it in the last websites team meeting as well: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-websites/2011-03-30/fedora-websites.2011-03-30-15.00.html
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