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To be fair, I explicitly stated that the "logo in the header bar" idea was intentionally a straw-man to start a discussion. I hadn't thought of changing the shell chrome color, but that's certainly worth consideration.
No, the bash/zsh shell colour. This goes with: " Putting the burden on GNOME, and the Fedora version of GNOME to carry all the branding of the distribution for Fedora Workstation is unfair, IMO. "
Changing the default hostnames, colouring the shell prompt in Fedora colours are both useful to users *and* good for the branding.
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What I was most concerned about was that it seemed like you were coming down on the side of "Fedora should just ship GNOME however GNOME upstream wants it" which was ignoring Fedora's needs entirely.
Fedora's needs were never set out, which makes it really complicated to even start working on this. What is there to work on when Fedora is just going to make its own changes anyway, right?
I'm quite happy to work together on figuring out how we can solve this in upstream GNOME to solve Fedora's (and by extension, other distros') needs for brand identity.
The reason we've done things downstream in the past is mostly because (as Christian noted) the problem isn't highly prioritized upstream, so it gets ignored until it becomes a fire-drill. So let's work on that; let's plan solve the Fedora 26 problem in 2016 (or really early in 2017) so it's ready to be implemented in time for a Spring 2017 release.
Which means it needs to be worked on now so the changes are in GNOME 3.24 for those changes that affect GNOME. And you'll also need to convey that need to the maintainers of other, non-GNOME, software in Fedora, so they can have their discussions with their upstreams in the same way as we're engaging here.
Cheers