On 6/5/14, Tuomas Kuosmanen tigert@redhat.com wrote:
Confusion where?
Well, from a monolithic point of view. It might be confusing to have one artistic motif in the installer, another in the desktop-background, and other different in the web pages for the same major release. In this case the artistic motif is a visual component that helps to strengthen the visual connection between CentOS visual manifestations and the release they refer to.
To make it easy to identify the CentOS version running on a particular computer?
Yes. Although it is not limited to one particular computer, but the entire project visual structure. I think it would be good for CentOS project recognition to use the same artistic motif in all visual manifestations it is made of (e.g., installer, desktop-backgrounds, indexhtml, web pages, posters, stands, cards, everywhere). So, their visual relation can be retained as we interact with them. In that sake, each major release should have one unique visual style (artistic motif), so no visual confusion can exist between major releases.
There seems to be a proportional relation between the number of visual components we use to connect visual manifestations and the recognition strength they provide (e.g., if we use more visual components to connect visual manifestations, we achieve more recognition in them).
--al.