Comments on: Branding Ubuntu

By: Shinigami

Shinigami — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:37:45 +0000

YokoZar,
You think that it’s so important to place picture of Ubuntu logo in every game and spend time in compiling games with them? More important then fix bugs which full in Ubuntu?
As I build a my own distro based on ubuntu I go crazy fixing Ubuntu bugs and became to think about migration to Debian, now you want to make a little more headache to all ubuntu based distros?
And so Ubuntu became like openSUSE which place it’s logo everywhere?
And if we take Ubuntu logo everythere+Ubuntu bugs we will have Microsoft. Hurray!
I think it’s not good idea.
Fix bugs and develop. It’s much better marketing to develop quality product and it’s better show to people that linux rulez, then addind logo to all applications of distro. It’s just will be like reminder that all bugs in distro will be associated with ubuntu logo. As in mind of much people penguins associated with Linux and Linux associated with bugs and not working software.

By: YokoZar

YokoZar — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:06:25 +0000

Sense Hofstede: If I had to rename the card set and then patch the default one chosen that would be the same problems as before – unfriendly to derivatives and requires a patch to each branded app.

By: Vadim Peretokin

Vadim Peretokin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:30:59 +0000

Go branding. Linux isn’t doing enough of it and the results are visible – barely anyone knows about it.

Don’t listen to the selfish people with zero interest in helping themselves.

By: Sense Hofstede

Sense Hofstede — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:37:00 +0000

Great work! The new artwork looks a lot better! Any change branding-ubuntu will become a dependency of ubuntu-desktop?

One small thing: the set of cards is still called Gnomangelo Bitmap, maybe it would be better to add the new cards as a separate cardset and make it the default style.

By: Flimm

Flimm — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:56:23 +0000

Go MadsRH!

By: Andreas Nilsson

Andreas Nilsson — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:09:29 +0000

Mark: very much agree (as a upstream artist). Using the foot graphics there feels like over-the-top branding.
Can you file some bugs about it? (and put me in cc, my bugzilla id is “nisses dot mail at home dot se”).
I’ll get in touch with Mads and ask for unbranded version of the card graphics.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:51:40 +0000

How about removing the Ubuntu logo everywhere instead and getting upstream to remove the branded background.

BRANDING SUCKS BALLS!!

By: Dylan McCall

Dylan McCall — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:20:45 +0000

Wow, those cards look awesome. I was afraid it could get kind of redundant (with all the repetition of that same logo!), but you’ve done it pretty tastefully.
I can’t say I’m a fan of still using a logo for the gnometris background, though. It looks a bit distracting.

By: Evan Broder

Evan Broder — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:08:24 +0000

Have you ever seen config-package-dev? It’s a package we developed at MIT for the Debathena Project (http://debathena.mit.edu) that’s designed to make generating these sorts of dpkg-diversions easy. We’re currently using it on almost 50 different configuration packages.

There’s a fair amount of documentation at [http://debathena.mit.edu/config-packages/], and the Debathena team has pretty extensive experience building packages using config-package-dev. I’m still at work for a few more hours, but once I get off, I’d be more than happy to help you convert branding-ubuntu to using config-package-dev. I really think it’ll make maintaining the branding-ubuntu package easier going forward.