little list of proposal for maverick from kubuntu italian users

[Giuseppe Pennisi]

In data domenica 27 giugno 2010 08:21:15, Harald Sitter ha scritto:
> Am Samstag, 26. Juni 2010, 17:56:13 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan:
> > On Saturday, June 26, 2010 6:13:06 am maggsimo at gmail.com wrote:
> > > 2) artwork: We are asking for artwork in Kubuntu like other distro
> > > have. A not invasive artwork, in according with the default style of
> > > KDE, but at
> > > 
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> > Don't know about the rest, but I can tell you all of these have been
> > rejected many times.  Being true to upstream is a Kubuntu goal.  Though
> > the kdm in Lucid is actually Kubuntu-specific.  Upstream didn't have one
> > at all, and Roman (I think?) made it.  It's been sent upstream (of
> > course), and should be in KDE SC 4.5.
> 
> Right, the thing is that KDM just disturbed our's and upstream's login
> experience a bit (it looked horrible), so that is the reason for that.
> 
> We also have discussed this numerous times and always reached the same
> conclusion. Let me just highlight some of the key points behind *not*
> having custom branding:
>  * KDE does the work, so KDE deserves most of the credit, and we are not
> considering Menu -> Help -> About enough of this, in fact that the KDE
> brand is dominant within Kubuntu is simply because KDE's software is the
> dominant visible work product.
>  * By incompletely swapping the brand it will probably create rising
> confusion about what Kubuntu is and what this KDE is, that is mentioned
> here and there. * We do generally like upstream's artwork, in fact I would
> go as far as saying that we love it, and since our color profile overlaps
> a lot with KDE's (for obvious reasons ;)), there is not that could be done
> regarding customizing existing artwork.
> 
> Despite those things it is not anyway as simple as "adding our logo",
> because simply doing that will lead to artwork that looks completely off.
> One ought to carefully integrate our logo into the general artwork's
> colors and forms. We have seen how difficult this is with creating a
> custom launcher icon (available for those that desire a Kubutu-branded
> starter icon in the panel).
> 
> I do not claim this to be a complete list of all the reasons discussed in
> the past, but it sure is one of the more important ones.
>
Hi, I'm one of the Kubuntu User that have writing the email with Simone.
I'm sorry for my poor english, I hope you can understand my opinion.
About artwork I understand your reasons and I'm happy to use the default KDE 
artwork, Nuno and Co. do a great work.
But the only thing meaningless (IMHO) is the incoherence between the  
Playmouth theme and KDM\KDE theme.
I think that see two different themes (Playmout -> KDM) during the boot 
procedure is bad and gives an idea of approximation and unprofessional.
If Kubuntu (and I agree) wants have the same KDE artwork, can be a good idea 
to use the same theme (or color scheme) of KDM/KDE also for Playmouth.
I think with this little trick we can make a look very rock and coherent.

Giuseppe