Goals
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Default Design Models for CentOS Themes provide design models for the following components:

Distribution
     Design models for CentOS Distribution (e.g., Anaconda, Firstboot, Gdm, Grub, Gsplash, Kdm, Ksplash, Rhgb and Syslinux, etc.). See Filesystem trunk Identity Themes Models Default Distro, for more information.

Concept
     Design models to illustrate Artistic Motifs Concepts. See Filesystem trunk Identity Themes Models Default Concept, for more information.

Promotion
     Design models for CentOS Promotion stuff (e.g., installation media, posters, etc.). See Filesystem trunk Identity Themes Models Default Promo, for more information.

Description
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This directory implements the concept of Default Design Models for CentOS Themes.  Default Design Models for CentOS Themes provide the common structural information (e.g., image dimensions, translation markers, trademark position, etc.) the centos-art script uses to produce images when no other design model is specified.

Deisgn models in this directory do use the CentOS Release Brand. The CentOS Release Brand is a combination of both The CentOS Type and The CentOS Release Schema used to illustrate the major release of CentOS Distribution the image produced belongs to. See Filesystem trunk Identity Models Tpl Brands, for more information.

Usage
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The CentOS Project maintains near to four different major releases of CentOS Distribution. Each major release of CentOS Distribution has internal differences that make them unique and, at the same time, each CentOS Distribution individually is tagged into the one unique visual manifestation (i.e., Distribution). So, how could we implement the monolithic visual structure in one visual manifestation that has internal difference?

To answer this question we broke the question in two parts and later combined the resultant answers to build a possible solution.

How to remark the internal differences visually?

     Merge both The CentOS Project Release Schema into The CentOS Project Trademark to build The CentOS Project Release Trademark.  The CentOS Project Release Trademark remarks two things: first, it remarks the image is from The CentOS Project and second, it remarks which major release of CentOS Distribution does the image belongs to. See Filesystem trunk Identity Models Tpl Brands, for more information on how to develop and improve The CentOS Project Brand.

How to remark the visual resemblance?

     Use a common artistic motifs as background for all CentOS Distribution images.  See Filesystem trunk Identity Themes Motifs, for more information.

So, combining answers above, we could conclude that:

     In order to implement the CentOS Monolithic Visual Structure on CentOS Distribution visual manifestations, a CentOS Release Trademark and a background information based on one unique artistic motif should be used in all remarkable images The CentOS Distribution visual manifestation is made of.

     Important Remarking the CentOS Release Schema inside each major release of CentOS Distribution ---or similar visual manifestations--- takes high attention inside The CentOS Project corporate visual identity. It should be very clear for everyone which major release of CentOS Distribution is being used.

Other recommendations have been discussed in CentOS Developers mailing list (centos-devel@centos.org). One of them is producing one unique visual style for each major release of CentOS Distribution.  That is, if we have four different major releases of CentOS Distribution, we need to provide four different visual styles to cover each CentOS Distribution artistic needs.  Even such schema could be produced inside CentOS Artwork Repository, using it could introduce visual isolation to different visual manifestations of The CentOS Project.

As previously said, The CentOS Project maintains near to four different major releases of CentOS Distribution in parallel and that fact creates a complete different perspective since the structural point of view. If one unique visual style is used for each major release of CentOS Distribution, which one of those different visual styles would be used to cover other visual manifestations, like The CentOS Web sites and The CentOS Promotion stuff?

Some persons may end up asking themselves, why the CentOS Distribution I am using has this visual style and the CentOS Web sites a different one?  Isn't them all part of the same project?

Creating a linear and uniform visual style for all visual manifestations of The CentOS Project does create a strong feeling of integrity, order and property on persons interacting with the project through its manifestations. Every single detail, in every manifestation The CentOS Project expresses out its existence say what The CentOS Project is.

I don't think The CentOS Project as an ambiguous project, but a direct and very pragmatic project where its community makes the central axis of movement. A manifestation of freedom to people to use computers and share as natural right. A manifestation of people kindness whose make the best they know to do in favor of themselves as manifestation of everyone else.  In such feeling there is no space for contradictions or ununiform visual structures, but very uniform visual structures that can be altered by anyone to fit personal needs.

I strongly believe that The CentOS Project, as social organization, should be that way uniform and provide the means to let everyone do customzations in their own basis whenever it be clear that once such uniformity has been changed by someone differnt to The CentOS Project, it is no longer a visual manifestation of The CentOS Project, but a modified visual manifestation of The CentOS Project.

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