[FusionWeb] [Web] Theme proposal/idea/mockup

[RYX]

Am Freitag, den 29.06.2007, 22:38 -0400 schrieb Jeffrey Laramie:
> Hey Rico,
> 
> I've been looking at your design (which I still love BTW) and I have question. 
> >From the look of your proposed tabs and layout it almost looks like this will 
> replace the compiz site. Is that what you intend? 
Yup - that was kind of my plan :) ... But it is not just meant to be a
replacement of the compiz-website, it is a fusion of the compiz and
beryl websites. E.g. the plum-colored forum is intended to be a visual
merge between "compiz blue" and "beryl red", the orange-color for the
plugins-area stands for "fusion", the white on black theme as such is a
tribute to the old beryl site  ... (so I try to make everyone happy :D)

> I think that Compiz and 
> Compiz Fusion should be closely integrated as 2 divisions of one community, 
> but I'm not sure where we should draw the line and how separate they should 
> be (site wise, not code wise).
Maybe we shouldn't draw any lines at all, but instead offer one combined
community website with all features from compiz and beryl and their
websites.

> My concern is that if we integrate them too closely, as Compiz Fusion becomes 
> more well known with users, in the user's mind Compiz will be absorbed into 
> Fusion and Compiz will lose it's identity as an independent compiz-core 
> package. 
I think it may be exactly the other way round. If we have a separated
"fusion"-part then people could start referring to their desktop as
"fusion" instead of "compiz fusion".

> I'm waiting to hear David's thoughts on this but I thought we (we 
> meaning the list, not just Rico and I) ought to discuss it also.
I personally think the core should be seen as David's contribution to
the community and I (still) can see no real benefit in separating core
and extras too much, at least for the user.

To me the goal of the re-unificiation should be (i.e. was?) to finally
get the two (closely dependent) parts together into one complete
project.

Of course I will accept David's decision on this, whatever that may be.
But as far as I remember he wanted to have one community for all (and
that's all I want, too).

(btw: I have made a wiki-skin out of my design idea. It looks pretty
cool and could perfectly replace the current compiz-theme as soon as we
have a matching VB-style. I can upload it somewhere if anyone is
interested in having a look ...)

(Maybe we should start a thread on the admin-list about your concerns. I
guess it would be the appropriate place for discussing it.)


Rico

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