Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] GNOME Main Menu and the Distribution Logo

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Karl Goetz <karl kgoetz id au> wrote:
>
> Branding may be very important to distributions, but is it gnomes job to
> provide ways for different distributions (operating systems even) to
> brand themselves? Don't get me wrong - I'm not trying to advocate gnome
> making it hard, but if the only reason for something to exist is
> downstream distros branding I'm not sure I see a reason for gnome to
> maintain it.

I think we should make it easy for downstream partners to add their
brand the way we want it added. Otherwise, if there's no room for
their brand, they may end up doing things that we think impede the
usability or they may remove our branding if it's the only place to
insert theirs.

Stormy