We could always tone the logo down a bit. Make it monochrome as you suggest or even slightly transparent...
Fab On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Rahul Sundaram <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/15/2011 04:26 PM, Aleksandra Bookwar wrote: > > Hello, everyone, > > > > I would like to invite you to these two particular discussions: > > > > 1) gnome-shell extension that adds a Fedora logo > > > > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2011-April/004233.html > > Using the extension for a few days now and I am not convinced it should > be the default. The panel is a black one with monochromatic icons and > the Fedora logo attracts a lot of attention and while I initially > thought it would serve the purpose of branding really well, it turns out > to be distracting for me considering the rather subdued design of the > shell which emphasises the use of colors for things that really do need > immediate attention like the battery getting drained or whatever. > > https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Whiteboards/SymbolicIcons/ > > If we decide to go with this, I would suggest using the monochromatic > variant of the logo as well > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Logo/UsageGuidelines#Greyscale_Logo > > > 2) customization of themes and colors in gnome 3 desktop in Fedora 15 > > > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2011-April/007130.html > > > > I think that these topics are important for promoting Fedora 15 to > > end-users and Fedora Marketing Team should be involved. > > If GNOME Shell has no support for changing these without extensions, I > am not sure what marketing can say about that. Can you clarify what > you are asking here? It's important to understand the difference > between marketing in a traditional software environment and in a open > source project. In a traditional environment, marketing goes to > customers or end users, gathers data and provides input on what > engineering should focus on and a sub division responsible for branding > decides how products how should be branded however in a open source > project, marketing is usually focused on promoting what developers come > up with and while this isn't the ideal situation, in a open community, > we can merely influence but not dictate. > > Rahul > > -- > marketing mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing >
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