Fedora Artwork

[Jeffrey D. Yuille]

Steve Barnhart wrote:
> I personally do not prefer the "bubbly" theme introduced in recent
> versions of Fedora and am not immediately fond of the artwork path the
> Fedora team seems to be taking. To me it seems to be departing away
> from the regular/old redhat-artwork team which imo is a bad thing. I
> liked bluecurve when it first came out and many people did, but in any
> way it did create A LOT of attention onto Redhat. It was a nice and
> professional theme and still looks pretty good today except for the
> use of grey and "blah" buttons.
>
> The icon theme though is still nice and the artwork (GDm theme, splash
> screen etc.) shown in RHEL4 is more of the kind of stuff I would like
> to see instead of the "kiddish" kind of look Fedora seems to be taking
> on. I believe many want a professional looking distro and
> Redhat/Fedora was/is that and I would like if perhaps we could take
> some different directions in the artwork again, perhaps more in tune
> to what RHEL team does. I have looked at the new icon theme (Echo) and
> I think I like it and I even like the Bluecurve GDM theme shipped
> w/FC5 as well as the splash screen for GNOME. Its the bubbily/light
> blue theme and such that is in the new release that I do not like.
> Hopefully we can discuss this more.
>
Amen to that, I like the old themes in FC4, FC3, etc.  Why the 
maintainers decided to depart from that, I have no idea. 

Jeff