Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (100 mails)

["Sankar P" <psankar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > On 12/21/2010 at 04:05 PM, in message <20101221103553.GV21120@xxxxxxxxx>,
Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Hi,
>
> During the IRC meeting last week, there was some long discussion about
> the default 11.4 theming, especially for the background.
>
> Let me try to summarize what was said:
>
>   - the proposed background is similar to what you can see at
>     http://karl-tux-stadt.de/ktuxs/?p=2677 (but with a different shade
>     of green).
>
>   - as a distribution, having a consistent look and feel is rather
>     important: we do want to have the boot splash and the desktop
>     background form a consistent set.
>
>   - some people thought that the currently proposed background is too
>     close to KDE: it's based on a background that got included in KDE SC
>     4.5, and that exists in distribution-branded versions (like the
>     openSUSE one). See the posts starting in August at
>     http://ivan.fomentgroup.org/blog/ 
>
>   - some people mentioned that upstream GNOME will ask distributions to
>     use the upstream GNOME 3 theme, including the background for GNOME 3
>     (so not for 11.4, but 11.4+1). For reference, this is
>     
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-themes-standard/plain/themes/Adwaita/back 
> grounds/stripes.jpg
>
>   - some people mentioned that it's important to have an
>     openSUSE-branded background for marketing.
>
> I think that covers most opinions that were raised. I'm explicitly not
> telling who said what, because I'll likely misquote people ;-)
>
> In the end, we didn't reach a conclusion. I'd like to hear what people
> think about the whole topic, so we can come with a decision from the
> whole team.

I prefer if we can add an openSUSE logo watermarked on jimmac's stripes 
background and just use that. Someone who is artistic like gnokii/garrett may 
be interested to help us. 

I vote for staying close to Adwaita's default theme.

Sankar 

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