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.

its not so easy. Just adding a geeko to jimmacs blue stripes background! U forget I make from one of the backgrounds the bootsplash. So now think I would choose the blue jimmac styled, and u would be a KDE user and land then in the celadon green KDM looks not so consistent. The same I would choose the celadon from KDE and u land on the blue styled GDM then. I asked jimmac for restyling it with celadon, he is fine with it :D But isnt really a solution because the patterns are different (KDE one is more plastic). So means that I have the same problem again. And still have to rework sonar. Thats why I choosed grey for the Gnome side, its a neutral color it works with every color. br gnokii P.S. LXDEs black theme looked so nice with the dark green and now its gone ;)

Sankar

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