On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Chris Beiser <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 Gnome designers 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > design-team mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team > We are going to stick with GNOME's upstream design. You are free to work on whatever theme you like, but it won't be default. -- -Elad Alfassa.
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