Hi Shawn

Sounds good. I would not vote against a new artwork for 6.1 as long as the main SL logo stays the same.
I think that the artwork should be consistent in Gnome, gdm, KDE, kdm, KDE splash screen, icewm, and grub splash screen.

In order to start the discussion, you may want to produce some first drafts of a new artwork.

Cheers,

      Urs



On 04/23/2011 07:51 AM, Shawn Thompson wrote:
> Seeing that CentOS is taking forever with their 6.0, I actually
> evaluated SL6 for a virtual server appliance my school board has been
> setting up, and it really is a pretty good distribution! Making a good
> Linux distro sorta ''is'' rocket science :>
>
> Though the one thing that kinda puts me off is the default artwork.
> While it is easy to fix that post-install, I really think that SL
> could use a nice shiny new identity out of the box, maybe in time for
> 6.1? And maybe a new theme for the site to go along with it too.
>
> I actually did have some pretty cute ideas for a direction we could go
> in (we'd keep some sort of atom symbol as the logo of course), like
> maybe a motif based off the Periodic table, or maybe fission, or
> something else based off science?
>
> Think this could be a good idea?
>
> ~Shawn