Based on this link it looks like openSUSE might be a bit more creative with the branding of this release. Does anyone know if this discussion is continuing, and at what point does the branding start coming together?
In reality green is not a primary color.
There are only three primary colors.
Red
Blue
Yellow
Green is a primary additive colour. Cyan, magenta, and yellow are subtractive primary colours.
Hmmnn! Time is really changing. When I studied fine arts 33 years ago and 100% of the illustrations were done by hand. It was never explained to us that green belongs to the primary set of colors. We were introduced to the red, yellow and blue as the primary colors as they are pure and can’t be achieved by mixing any hues, those three are the source of every color that the naked eye can see and green belongs to the secondary as you can achieve it by mixing blue and yellow next is the tertiary and so fort. That was the way I learned it but as the link says I can’t disagree with that as it looks like it was well explained.
Any way this is the colour wheel and it’s up to you to judge.
Edit:
It says green is a primary “additive” color.
Hmmnn! Time is really changing. When I studied fine arts 33 years ago and 100% of the illustrations were done by hand. It was never explained to us that green belongs to the primary set of colors.
You were introduced only to the subtractive primary colours (relevant to painting, printing etc). If you think about CRT and LCD display deivces, they generate their colour space with red, green, and blue primary colours. The link you supplied explains the differences as well. 
> Hmmnn! Time is really changing. When I studied fine arts 33 years ago
you are a youngster!
> and 100% of the illustrations were done by hand. It was never explained
> to us that green belongs to the primary set of colors. We were
> introduced to the red, yellow and blue as the primary colors
agree completely!
the difference between then and ‘reality’ is that the art teacher
didn’t tell us everything (instead just what we needed to know when
adding colors to each other (mixing) and then applying to an opaque
surface…
there was a whole 'nother world because colors interact differently
when printed…
the artist’s way = red, blue, yellow
the printer’s way = cyan, magenta, yellow
(PS: in university i took Color 101 and 102, and never heard
anything past red/blue/yellow and the color wheel you referenced)
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palladium
IIRC the openSUSE branding always comes in at the last Milestones. You can see for yourself at the link if the discussion is still going on.
Personally I don’t care about the default color, though I’m convinced there should be consistency in it. AFAIK almost any one of us changes things in the appearance of the desktop, some change the splash screens and GRUB background as well.
I noticed that the thread is rather new (early March), but why is it only available from “http://old.nabble.com”? That seemed to imply that the conversation had moved elsewhere, and I can’t find any more information since then.
I’m perfectly open to the idea of a new branding theme; I’d like to get a sneak peak ahead of time if possible, of course. 
Quoting the important part:
The Oxygen guys pointed out to me that of all the primary colours, green is the one that LCD monitors have the hardest time representing accurately. If you look at any monitor gamut diagram, it’s always green that is weakest. The result is that greenish designs look great on the high end external monitors favoured by designers, digital photographers and gadget freaks like me, and look like many other things that are not great on lesser displays, which includes the majority of laptop displays. Other colours display much more reliably.
So how would you feel if we had a non-green release this time?
Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team
I’m not very fond of green, so a change in colour would be very welcome! rotfl!
The chameleon, which is openSuse’s official animal, certainly isn’t limited to green.
Concerning colour systems: The additive colour system (red, green, blue) is based on the human eye which has receptors for red, green and blue wavelengths. Any colours that are seen by the eye are composed from red, green and blue. Yellow e.g. is composed of equal parts of red and green.
Defects in the receptors in the eye lead to difficulties in distinction of the three primary colours, resulting in colour blindness (most freuently red-green blindness).
I’ve made a poll for a new colour scheme here:
New colour scheme for openSuse 11.3 - openSUSE Forums
Not a youngster, but young at heart.
This is all rather silly (IMO) and going nowhere fast. 11.3 is a release not a brand. openSUSE is the brand – green is the colour unless I am mistaken – a gecko being the logo. :\
Wait a minute, didn’t ubuntu announce a change in their artwork. They needed to. Oh, that explains the sudden rush to change colour… Baa, baa, baaaa. 
rotfl!
Green, Orange and Purple are secondary colors I thought.
Even with sticking with the green color, openSUSE can use some branding love.
For example with the Gnome version the “computer” (main menu) button is a generic computer. This is a perfect opportunity to place an opensuse logo (geeko) and maybe even the “openSUSE” name too! But noOo… it was shot down in openFate (#306635](https://features.opensuse.org/306635)).
Let’s change to … PURPLE!
Oh no, that’s taken already…
Reading here about colors there seems to be a missunderstanding about why colors are represented a certain way. Colors are a spectrum issue with both additive and subtractive properties. CYMK is best for printed material which uses additive (ink on paper) technology. Some printers accept RGB but internally convert to cymk. RGB (Red-Green-Blue) are subtractive and generally used with display devices like monitors and projectors. Camera’s especially Digital use a variance Red-Cyan-Blue to compensate for color bleeding thru air as light and shadows take their toll. Dogs Cats and Birds see only shades of grey with BLACK & WHITE at either end. And us humans see subtractively in dark lighting but additively in bright lighting. Ever wonder why with all the some 16.7 million colors of a standard palette set very few combinations can be put together and render a nice look.
Back on topic, there is more to branding than the color rendition used. The gecko whatever color it adopts is a logo/trademark of openSUSE and it can be set onto multiple backgrounds. I think they chose green gecko on a slightly different green background because LCD works best with green. LCD isn’t like CRT or Print it’s more a blending of both so there are colors that LCD just won’t render properly when placed side by each.
RGB (Red-Green-Blue) are subtractive and generally used with display devices like monitors and projectors.
R,G,B are additive primary colours for light sources.
C,M,Y are subtractive primary colours (pigments for example). White light reflected off these, predominantly reflects only the colour we then see (while absorbing the rest).
You are so right. Consistency and quality of artwork is essential with branding. 
Purple is a color representing “dead”>:). Why choose it.
Maybe change the green to bloody red.>:(
Color associations vary, it’s a large world. Anyway, I was just kidding, take a look at ubuntu for netbooks (or something like that).
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Tell me if it looks good or is it a total cap lol! .