On 12/21/2010 at 04:05 PM, in message <20101221103553.GV21120@vuntz.net>, Vincent Untz
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org