On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:36:59 -0600
Stormy Peters <
stormy gnome org> wrote:
> 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.
