Fedora Logo on the login screen

[Ryan Lerch]

On 03/20/2013 03:26 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 12:30 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
>> On 03/20/2013 12:07 PM, seth vidal wrote:
>>> So the question is this:
>>>
>>> Is the user installing Fedora or are they installing Gnome?
>>>
>>> I think it is Fedora.
>>>
>>> I think Fedora ships many desktops and we should get some precedence in
>>> the login screen that the user sees no matter which desktop they are
>>> using.
>> Here's another important & related question: When something goes wrong,
>> who can help?
> This is absolutely right - branding is ultimately about
> *responsibility*.  And if we're talking about responsibility, it's
> important to note that from the GPL:
>
>      This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>      but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>      MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>      GNU General Public License for more details.
>
> So if the question is "what entity is responsible for the gdm package",
> the answer really is ultimately neither GNOME, nor Fedora, nor Ray, nor
> any other entity.
>
> There is no true responsibility - none of those above offer guarantees
> of service, nor can you take them to court for flaws in the software.
>
> However, Fedora is presently the upstream for Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
> and that *is* an entity that takes responsibility for what it produces,
> and people pay actual money for that service.  So we should take the
> ability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to brand the complete system very
> seriously.  At least in the form of making sure the relevant code works.
>
> So...TL;DR: Let's figure out how to brand things in Fedora so that it
> works for Red Hat Enterprise Linux which does actually need it.
>
> (I have no opinion on where the logo is or how big it is or whatever
>   myself)
>
Just FYI, the dicussion about the logo positioning itself is still 
ongoing in the GNOME bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694912

cheers,
ryanlerch