[indiana-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] General Branding Experience for Indiana

[Alvaro Lopez Ortega]

Tim Foster wrote, On 12/09/07 15:38:
 > On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 15:18 +0200, Alvaro Lopez Ortega wrote:
 >> Tim Foster wrote, On 12/09/07 14:59:
 >>
 >>  >  * No idea if this is possible with Compiz (Erwann?) but a desktop
 >>  >    background/app with semi-translucent RSS headlines
 >
 >> I don't know if that is a good idea. People will use Indiana as their
 >> OS, but they won't be living for Indiana or OpenSolaris.
 >
 > They what?! I'm shocked - shocked, I tell you :-)
 >
 >
 > You can't please all of the people all of the time, so having a conduit
 > in which to pour your message of choice, whether that's
 > developer.sun.com, opensolaris.org, netbeans.org, slashdot.org,
 > boingboing.net, whetever, could be a good thing.
 >
 > [ and allowing the user to change it to whatever they like means that
 > they wouldn't have to stick with what we have, but first impressions are
 > important ]

Agree, and that's why I said that we ought not to be advertising too
much the product within itself. Think that the people who would read
that would be already Indiana users.

I don't think that showing the OpenSolaris feed on the desktop would
make a good first impression (it could be misunderstood).

(Besides, even Windows with its "Active Desktop" thingy used to link
  news papers and non-technology related media rather than their own
  Windows focused news site.) :-)

-- 
Greetings, alo.