On Thursday July 22 2010 13:33:55 S.Kemter wrote:
Hello,
On Thursday July 22 2010 11:16:04 Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Thursday 2010-07-22 10:56, Stephan Kleine wrote:
What do you think?
Identity implies consistency. I want my green. And quite frankly, even changing the artwork every release I consider too much. (The 11.3 backgrounds are some ugly cyanide bubble mix; I am still using a retrofitted 11.1 grayband theme.)
Well, make up the "corporate identity" by shapes or some Geeko logo but I just had it with the same color. Why should we always stick with that green?
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).
Well,why should we not do not? I'm absolutely not nailing this on the color, except that I'm personally tired of that green - e.g. we had some blue release too (iirc 10.x). Point just being that by sticking to some animal and its colors it gives us much more playground colorwise (not speaking of some funky mascots) instead of always having the same in a different shade.
Once again, I'm not saying to get rid of the Geeko but IMHO it could also be incorporated as some stylish logo within other colors. Just make it a bit different and fresh instead of repeating "the same old stuff" on every release (no offense art team ;D). E.g. gnoki's latest post about the installer was marvelous. Why not expand that beyond the installer by, GASP, using another color for some release?
That was not what I want! My target was not to replace the green, it was to give the whole distribution a good and first the same design. There exist some mockups and they are green, even they I published in my blog are green - its a petrol green
IMHO using an animal as code name and its main colors as colors for some release allows us to try new things while staying untouchable from the "regardless what you do I will always find some political incorrect thing" crowd.
So, IMHO, it gives us the options to try extreme stuff like black & white - Zebra - or some extremely colorful stuff - like some coral fish.
I remember there was an experiment to make a codename system, it started with Agama Lizard.
I agree the choose simple a name of an animal is to nearby ubuntu. When there should an system for code names there should be an really openSUSE like system not a simple copy of systems from ubuntu or fedora.
Why not choose green things like coolo do it? But in a system, so that can the community choose a codename?
1. cause it is green (yes, we disagree on that color fixation) 2. cause Ubuntu already is using the alphabet so find something else than characters (yes, that part is sarcastic).
The important point is that our stuff has to be aligned the get easily setup with a new color scheme _and_ it also should be easy to install an earlier version _that also has to work_ so everyone can be happy.
Perhaps in other words define the "corporate identity" by logos, shapes and forms instead of colors (that would be even a new thing) and experiment a bit with colors (no, please no pink) ;D
green is a part of that identity and shouldnt removed!
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