<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Owen Taylor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otaylor@redhat.com">otaylor@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</div>My proposal is is straightforward:<br>
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Once you select a user and log in to GNOME, you get the GNOME default<br>
background. All other artwork follows normal Fedora procedures.<br>
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While there are some mockups about how we'd like GDM to look like to<br>
match the rest of GNOME 3 (See<br>
<a href="http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell-design/plain/mockups/static/user-selector.png" target="_blank">http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell-design/plain/mockups/static/user-selector.png</a><br>
) they aren't going to be implemented in this cycle, so there's already<br>
a visual transition between the login screen and the desktop.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hey, Owen!</div><div><br></div><div>Don't get me wrong, I love Gnome Shell, Gnome 3 and all the fantastic stuff you are doing! I mean this. But I can't support you in this. I really think this step is a huge mistake and it helps neither Fedora nor Gnome. I wish I could've been at the IRC meeting this week where this came up (there was absolutely no way I could've attended this week) and I would've said the same there.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I strongly believe distributions should be more than a collection of packages. They need their own visual identity. I think while Canonical pushes this way too far in one direction with Ubuntu, this move would push it too far in the opposite direction. Red Hat obviously knows this since I strongly believe there is no way they would give this up for RHEL. So why should we for Fedora?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway, this is all just personal opinion and I am in no position to decide anything obviously. I just wanted to voice my concerns.</div><div><br></div><div>Fab</div></div>