On 24 September 2012 21:43, Eugene Trounev <eugene.trounev@gmail.com> wrote:
As a part of the branding precess (should we agree on one at all) we will attempt to: i) Develop openSUSE specific styling guidelines;
This makes sense, and I think it would be a good idea.
iI) Develop openSUSE specific look and feel including - icons, desktop theme, window theme;
Really? One of the last things we need to spend time and effort on is icons. Goodness knows there are enough of the damned things out there. We have basically settled on two icon sets if I'm not mistaken, Tango for GNOME and Oxygen for KDE, what's wrong with these? I also disagree with having a new desktop/window theme, the defaults work exceptionally well.
iii) Restyle the website to follow the guidelines and the desktop theme conventions;
The web presence is where most of the styling is needed, the desktops are fine as they are. How do we differentiate our GNOME from say Fedora? I'm not so sure, but diverging from upstream even in something like theme is wrong IMHO.
iv) [Possibly] redesign the logo itself
HELL NO! If your reasoning for re-designing the logo is that SUSE redesigned theirs well the simple answer is they had to. SUSE is effectively a new company, and as such they needed to make a clean start and they only slightly modified their old logo. If you saw Nils' opening keynote he jokingly suggested that SUSE should replace the Geeko with a Purple Dog that barked more, people made it clear that any major change to the logo would be disastrous. The logo makes up a large part of who we are. Regards, Andy -- Andrew Wafaa IRC: FunkyPenguin GPG: 0x3A36312F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org