the Fedora logo is an important (and well known) part of the Fedora branding and out-of-box experience - and has been for many years.

FinalBlocker +1
FinalFE +1

FinalFE +1

I cannot find a criteria to block - maybe artwork at a push (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_42_Final_Release_Criteria#Artwork) but that seems more to be focused on the desktop wallpaper/background.

Would like to see this updated for GNOME-48 though.

FinalFE +1
FinalBlocker -1

FinalFE +1

the Fedora logo is an important (and well known) part of the Fedora branding and out-of-box experience - and has been for many years.

FinalBlocker +1

Please link to a criterion that you believe this violates, when you're for blocking. But I don't think you'll find it, I'm not aware of any. We don't require that the "Fedora" overlay logo must be present, we only have a wallpaper criterion:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Basic_Release_Criteria#Desktop_background
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_42_Final_Release_Criteria#Artwork

FinalBlocker -1
FinalFE +1

It does say…….
The proposed final Fedora artwork must be included and used as the background on release-blocking desktops. All Fedora artwork visible in critical path actions on release-blocking desktops must be consistent with the proposed final theme.

So is the artwork consistent?

Yeah, I also had the same impression. Since this logo is basically a part of the default desktop wallpaper set (just not a part of the png files themselves) and is a well-known part of the Fedora Workstation (and Silverblue etc.) visual identity that has been there for years.

If it is not treated as such, it would probably be better to consider removing it (or placing it directly into the png files) since this is sadly not the first time it was broken in an actual (Beta or Final) Fedora release.

(I realize that Florian probably plans to update it as part of a bigger GNOME 48 stable update before F42 Final, but it would still be better if this Background Logo was treated with a little more importance.)

I definitely feel like the logo would fall under the artwork criteria. This doesn't really pass the final blocker test for me though.

FinalBlocker -1
FinalFE +1

FinalBlocker -1

So is the artwork consistent?

The consistency needs to be for actions. It wouldn't be consistent if it said Ubuntu in one place instead of Fedora :-) Or Fedora Server on a Workstation. Etc. But we're not saying that a "Fedora" sticker needs to be everywhere (it is not on KDE desktop, for example).

FinalBlocker -1

Kamil's reasoning seems valid to me.

AGREED RejectedFinalBlocker AcceptedFinalFE

The following votes have been closed:

• Rejected FinalBlocker (+1, 0, -5)
  • +1 by asciiwolf
  • -1 by boniboyblue, kparal, nielsenb, geraldosimiao, lruzicka
• Accepted FinalFreezeException (+6, 0, -0)
  • +1 by asciiwolf, geraldosimiao, boniboyblue, derekenz, kparal, nielsenb

Release F42 is no longer tracked by BlockerBugs, closing this ticket.

I know this ticket is closed/old/whatever, but it recently got referenced in a Fedora Workstation ticket, and I want to make it clear that Fedora KDE does have several branding places set up on purpose and if they went missing, it is considered release-blocking and critically important to fix.

They are also generally caught by OpenQA and so we usually figure it out early, but branding is part of the default experience and is expected to work as a release-blocking aspect of a deliverable.