On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 13:21 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
Here's my 2c take on it. GDM isn't the only Display manager.
If the
gnome project doesn't want to do what we want in terms of a logo on the
DM then let's move to lightdm or one of the others and theme it however
we want.
GDM isn't the only game in town and afaict we wouldn't even need to
package something new, looks like lightdm and lxdm both exist and are
maintained.
We don't want to require patches to lots of programs, of course, but in
this case it is not about patching, afaict, it's about adding a
different pkg by default and adding some theming to it.
Seems like a simpler win and would involve more designing of a theme
and less arguing over various people's impression of cleanliness.
I would normally be ashamed and frustrated to the idea alone of replying
to a message like this, but I will make myself an exception, because I
feel it's important for me to say it.
I think this message of yours was rude, inflammatory and condescending.
It's technically misinformed. It misses the entire point of this
discussion.
It moves the argument to a space where it can only die, or burst in an
unproductive flame that will have no positive outcome other than making
people more frustrated and less willing to engage in a serious
conversation on this list in the future.
Communication and collaboration can be hard, and I think we can only
succeed if we carefully weight what we're saying and respectfully
consider the nature of people involved in a given discussion.
I personally believe project leaders especially should realize this, and
I am often saddened to observe that this is not the case in Fedora.
Regards,
Cosimo