[FC7 theme proposal] Flying High with Fedora 7 - Round 2

[Ben Arnold]

On 23/12/06, Ben Arnold <iamseawolf at gmail.com>
<ben.arnold.inbox at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20/12/06, Leo <sdl.web at gmail.com> wrote:
> > * Máirín Duffy (2006-12-20 12:58 -0500) said:
> > [...]
> > > How do OOo, Gimp, and Eclipse splash screens provide the best user
> > > experience possible...? They don't. They provide a fuller 'brand
> > > experience' for sure, but that's different from 'user experience'
> > > (former benefits us more than it would users.)
> > >
> > > The best user experience possible is applications loading up so
> > > quickly you don't need a splash screen to provide feedback that yes,
> > > the application is loading.
> >
> > a splash screen will be in those apps for Fedora 7.
> >
>
> To offer my two pence, if the splashes are going to be included with
> FC7 apps, the user already knows they are running FC7.
>
> Our brand identity is done through our scheming and, IMHO, does not
> need to be extended through to apps because the 'essentials'
> themselves (such as OOo, GIMP, Inkscape, FF, etc.) can be obtained
> from the Fedora repositories via yum et al. This ensures these apps
> come from the Fedora Universe (if you see what I mean: no connection
> to discussions going around elsewhere) and so are string-bound
> together by Fedora's brand. If we were to, who's to say we shouldn't
> create custom splases for every single application availible in Core
> or Extras?
>
> TBH, with the time we've left for extra work for both arts and packs
> coupled with the efforts to improve already great subs, I don't see
> the need to extend our efforts to custom splashes.
>
>
> ./Ben
>
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