Should generic-logos' system-logo-white.png be a smiling hot dog with arms and legs?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Apr 15 13:14:44 UTC 2009


Joonas Sarajärvi wrote:
> I recently noticed that the system-logo-white.png file in
> generic-logos is (imo) a quite weird and unprofessional-looking
> smiling hot dog with arms and legs. It is shown in the middle of the
> screen when booting the system on a machine where KMS works. I'd
> rather have something more neutral and Fedora-ish in the default boot
> screen, but I must replace fedora-logos with generic-logos on my
> custom spins of Fedora. Therefore, I filed a bug about it here:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495561
> 
> I already got one reply from Bill Nottingham, who noted that the
> generic logos were supposed to be replaced by the creators of the
> custom spins. He also noted that this is the first bug about the file,
> and replacing the image may be considered, if there is more pressure
> to do so.

I distribute a remix of Fedora and I thought it was some sort of a
practical joke. Didn't bother much since like you said KMS was not
enabled on many systems by default then. I would appreciate if the art
team comes up with something more generic. Help?

Rahul




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