This is an effort to make Gnome having a consistent look and feel from the very first time you boot your box on, till you login -and after! It’s not such a big deal and my guess is that only Fedora will use these (Gnome Ubuntu maybe?).
Gnome UX Team plays a lot with Dark Grey colors in Gnome 3.6 (and beyond), with some touches of light colors. While the look is professional and exhales “class” ..is kinda depressive.
system startup
description: From power on to either GDM or the user session should be fluid and seamless.
| Goals | Non Goals |
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| -Indicate the power is on -Show something is happening -Efficiently get the system operational |
-Don’t be a separate place -Don’t beat the user over the head with branding |
| Constraints | |
| -Operate in both graphics and text mode -Graphics mode must work at 800×600 -Text mode must work at 80×24 characters -Text mode restricted to ASCII character set -Background cannot be pure black (#000) due to the way monitors align video images. However, #080808 for example is OK. |
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screens
These are mockups under discussion and nothing is final yet.
With logos (probably distro logo here)
consistency with the rest system
Watch the similarities with Login/Lock Screens, Notifications Bar and even Adwaita dark theme.
Background is one of the defaults from the Wallpaper Pallet of Gnome 3.6; and of course the famous Gnome Icons!
colors colors colors!
The easiest way to give a professional look into your system is to use dark colors and specially dark grey as Gnome Design Team does. Everyone uses these colors; shouldn’t Gnome be more “special” ? I think they have overdone it in a degree that it ends up to be depressing. Consistent look doesn’t necessary come by the colors.
Imagine, a rainy September day, that you just have broke up, to boot your Gnome on, watch all these grey boot screens, then open Files and see the -born to make you sad- Icons, and listen to Emilliana Torrini..
dedicated to Gnome Design Team :)
..wouldn’t you commit suicide ? :)
a gnome spinner, if you want to use it in ajax loadings :)