10th November 2008
Raw meeting logs for the meeting on 10th of November at 19:00 UTC are here.
Agenda
- secondary GNOME Logo
- Plans for GNOME 2.26
- continued discussion about GNOME 3.0 plans
- Add Items
Minutes
Present:
- Andreas Nilsson
- Andrea Cimitan
- Vinicius Depizzol
- Thorten Wilms
- Benjamin Berg
- Kenneth Wimer
- Nathan Samson
- baze
- pacho
Secondary GNOME Logo
The issue is that the foot logo is considered offensive in some cultures; a summery can be found on the FootAndCulturalIssue page. Andreas is already working on replacing the throbber with a neutral one similar to the firefox throbber. There was a consensus that doing this is a good idea.
Some discussion ensued about the possibility of having a different icon for start-here depending on the locale. It was noted that many distributions are already changing this icon, and it is not feasible to modify the icon theme depending on the locale (only way would be a locale specific gtkrc). In the end the consensus was that it is best to completely remove the foot logo from the icon theme. Andreas suggested to try out a flower for the start-here icon.
Vinicius mentioned that gnome-system-monitor uses a banner that contains the GNOME logo. While the logo seems useless here, it is also not very visible.
Plans for GNOME 2.26
The most up to date RoadMap is at RoadMap/Artwork.
Andreas says that the work on 256x256 icons has started. As this is a lot of work GNOME 2.28 may be a more appropriate target. The high resolution icons are not used very often, mostly by eg. GNOME Do and Elisa Media Center.
There is work going on to remove icons from normal menus, and therefor get rid of visual clutter. Relevant to this is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557469. Kenneth says that Ubuntu will soon have some ideas to reduce the clutter.
Benjamin says that he does not expect the flat theme to be in 2.26 (which originaly was on the list for 2.24). He wants to change Clearlooks/gtk-engines to make forking easier (Additional Comment: The idea is that the forks can use most code completely unchanged, and will get bugfixes, etc. by following upstream).
GNOME 3.0
Nothing was discussed about this. As Andreas said, it also depends a lot on the new GnomeShell plans. A GNOME Art meeting may take place at LGM next year.
Next meeting
The next meeting is going to be Monday 8th December at 19:00 UTC.