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January 22, 2007 on 12:51 am | In GNOME |A couple of days ago, thos wrote about the branding of the GNOME System Monitor; soon after that, a bug was opened about the image - how the colour was off for every non-blue theme, and how it went against the GNOME logo branding rules - and the image was removed. I liked the branding, though; and so did Luca Cavalli - so much, actually, that he wrote a patch for having the image coloured depending on the theme and with a full GNOME logo:
According to him, the patch still needs some clean ups, but I think now it would really be a great thing to have in the System Monitor for GNOME 2.18. Update@2007-01T09:44: the patch has been attached to bug #377144.
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It looks nice. But I think so much branding is not suited for the system monitor. I would prefer to have it in the gnome-control-panel (It’s been worked on right?). Or in the app wizards.
Comment by alefteris — Monday, January 22 2007 #
This looks awesome!
Comment by Jon — Monday, January 22 2007 #
Thank you !
Comment by Benoît — Monday, January 22 2007 #
I like it. It’s a nice place to put some branding without cluttering things up.
Comment by Murray Cumming — Monday, January 22 2007 #
I like the new branding. I think it would be great having it in the final 2.18
Comment by Oded — Monday, January 22 2007 #
It looks great. I think that it should be included in gnome 2.18
Comment by pacho — Monday, January 22 2007 #
Excellent solution. The result looks really good.
Comment by Markus Berg — Monday, January 22 2007 #
Please don’t add this. This is the very definition of a slippery slope. What about the next guy who decides to add some color to his application? What about people who want to run GNOME System Monitor in KDE? If you want to, add some bling to gnome-about.
Comment by anonymous — Monday, January 22 2007 #
I really can’t see the slope, let alone it being slippery or not.
if the rules of accessibility and branding are followed, then I don’t see why it can’t be done.
what about them? if they are running an hybrid system this is the least they can expect; and KDE already has system monitoring tools.
Comment by ebassi — Monday, January 22 2007 #
This is so cool, I hope it gets included!
Comment by Frank Groeneveld — Monday, January 22 2007 #
even officially endorsed and carefully craftd Gnome branding like this is a bad idea. it only encourages the distributions to make more branding changes of their own.
Comment by Alan — Monday, January 22 2007 #
@alan: that is a problem for the distributors of GNOME - they are entitled to do whatever branding they want. they already change the upper left logo in the main menu applet; add vendor-specific menu items and applications; apply vendor-specific patches to the packages. it’s not like branding doesn’t already exist.
Comment by ebassi — Tuesday, January 23 2007 #
If you’re having a love in with the system monitor and regardless I think we should have system information in the system monitor, could you do something about bug #328101
To make the actual system monitor look more like this
Comment by Karl Lattimer — Wednesday, January 24 2007 #
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