Fedora Infinity Update

Michael Beckwith tw2113 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 14 05:15:26 UTC 2007


I see what Rahul is saying. He's not saying that we shouldn't use purple
cause Gentoo does, he's saying that because Gentoo does, we shouldn't shy
away from the color.

On 8/13/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> Máirí­n Duffy wrote:
> > Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> Máirí­n Duffy wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> This sounds like a bit of an urban myth? I've never heard of this and
> >>> I've a design degree - I would love to know where you've heard this?
> >>
> >> Purple is the Gentoo color. See http://gentoo.org including their icon
> >> theme.
> >
> > Isn't it kind of silly to reject any single color because of its
> > symbolic meaning to another distro? Even SLES has used blue as the
> > primary color in some of its themes:
> > http://jimmac.musichall.cz/themesets.php
> >
> > The purple is an accent color, not the primary color. If we were to
> > reject particular colors because of their symbolic meaning elsewhere,
> > we'd have no colors left to work with.
> >
> > Also, Gentoo doesn't have much to do with this part of the thread?
>
> Not asking anyone to reject Purple. Just pointing out that it is already
> being used predominantly in another distribution and that to a extend
> invalidates the argument that people dont like purple as a color.
>
> Rahul
>
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