I understand the sentiment; it would be kinda cool to have a distinct 'Fedora'
visual style. But. Keep in mind first that Fedora is the only major linux
distro I know of that uses Gnome 3.x out of the box; there's not exactly that
much additional individuality that could be gained (at least for now) by
creating a new skin. Furthermore, the Gnome designers really have been working
pretty hard on Adwaita; I'm pretty confident we'd have trouble out-designing
them on all the theming; most everything in Gnome 3 works as a harmonious
whole, down to the typeface, and if we wanted to change something (lets say,
the titlebars), I think we'd have a lot of trouble making everything else fit
without redesigning everything. If a Fedora user wanted people to notice their
distro, they could use a default wallpaper, and if they wanted to make it look
different, they could install a theme, but I don't think it would make sense to
fragment the Gnome 3 experience and slight all the fantastic Gn
ome desi
gners in order to make Fedora look a little different after install.
--
Chris Beiser
On Monday, December 12, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Ryan Gauger wrote:
> Design team,
>
> We do many things, one of the many things we do is create and choose the
> default wallpapers for the next release of Fedora. I thought (thinking about
> Ubuntu) that it would be really cool for Fedora to have its own default
> theme, possibly keeping the default GNOME theme as an option, but using the
> default Fedora theme by default. In my opinion, it would be really cool for
> Fedora to have its own unique theme that maybe, possibly changes every three
> or four releases, making small, supplemental changes. This way, when a Linux
> user looks at the Fedora desktop without the wallpaper giving it away, that
> user would know right away that that computer was running Fedora. Again, not
> really needed, but would be really nice, possibly very fun to create the
> themes too. Now, I will shut up since I have no clue as to how to make a
> theme, but there is probably at least one person in this team who does know
> how to make themes. Might be, also might not be a good idea. Thanks!!!
>
> ---Ryan
>
> Sent from my iPod
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