Fedora Logo on the login screen

[Cosimo Cecchi]

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