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

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:51:34 +0800
Allan Caeg <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for the Feedback, Karl.

Sorry, another comment which just came to mind.

> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Karl Goetz <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > applet. Branding is just that important for a default GNOME setup.
> >
> > Who is branding important to? the desktop? the user? the
> > distributor?
> >
> > Why do you feel its so important?
> 
> 
> This is very important for distro marketing. Market share is one of
> the issues that Linux advocates arguably have to address. If it's

Note that when copping the market share argument its often as an
operating system - having obvious branding differences in this
particular argument might not even be a benefit :)

> hard to tell at a glance what system is running on a desktop, there
> would be an issue. I don't think that the real estate of desktops is
> that scarce to completely get rid of the branding anywhere on the
> panel.
> 
> What are your thoughts?

thanks,
kk

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