Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (465 mails)

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 2010-07-22 11:30, Administrator wrote:
> > Why should we not? Red is "taken" by Redhat, Brown/Purple by Ubuntu,
> > Blue by Fedora, and SUSE filled the green slot. Not much left in the
> > color wheel.
> >
> > The only way out seems to use black - which isn't a color (at least,
> > if you ask physicists).
>
> Could I suggest putting questions like that into the hands of people who
> care about colour (that excludes most "techies" - look at how they dress).

Whatever dress has to do with artwork colors. (Look at PHBs and other
tie-wearers.) It almost sounds like a pimp should choose Ubuntu 10
because it matches his (associated stereotypical) dress.

> I'd suggest having 4 seasonal colour schemes available (which could all
> incorporate some kind of green chameleon).  There are other possibilities.

Why not even ask the user at install time what his preferred color -
in Hue units - is, and then apply a color wheel rotation on all
artwork files. Then nobody can complain anymore.

> There must be some people in the openSUSE world who care about fashion and
> colour and style and design ... where are their voices?

It's not a democracy here.
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