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

I see no problem in removing it, except that in the "main menu" version of
the menu, what would go there instead?  Just the words "Main Menu"

idb

On 24 June 2010 10:02, Karl Goetz <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:36:59 -0600
> Stormy Peters <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Karl Goetz <[email protected]> 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.
>
> "About gnome" under 'System' is the only place I can see an obvious
> gnome reference on my desktop (2.22 provided by Debian). Is there
> anything else they can remove? The foot in the corner is what started
> this debate after all :)
> kk
>
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> Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
> Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
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Ian Bentley
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Queen's University
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