[Mageia-discuss] On the icons, desktop themes and related stuff

Michael Scherer misc at zarb.org
Sat Sep 25 09:58:43 CEST 2010


Le vendredi 24 septembre 2010 à 12:45 +0200, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
> 2010/9/24 SinnerBOFH <sinnerbofh at gmail.com>:
> >
> > On Sep 24, 2010, at 2:31 AM, atilla ontas <tarakbumba at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > My personal opinon, all except greyish, dark or blueish (we are not
> > Mandriva but fork) colors are ok. Also we should use qtcurve as a
> > theme engine, so we can use our theme on both gtk and qt application.
> >
> > I dint se why we should stay away from a blueish theme.
> > I like blueish themes.
> 
> It's not the question of liking, it is a question of identity.
> Everybody knows the green of openSUSE, the blue of Mandriva. If we
> start out with a blue identity we will be regarded as still being a
> kind of Mandriva Linux. Similarities and same packages in the
> technical part of Mageia will obviously be there. But the standard
> look should be recognizable different.

Technically, Fedora is also blue, and I think that 
1) no one tell the Fedora is a kind of Mandriva 
2) no one tell that Mandriva is a kind of Fedora

You can still be blue with a different color and feeling.

( and I do not say that because I like the blue :p )

-- 
Michael Scherer



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