Different Backgrounds for the Lock Screen vs the desktop

Joe Wulf joe_wulf at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 6 13:55:12 UTC 2013


It can be a real boon to organizations wishing to standardize such different backgrounds around the company logo, or a consent-to-use message, or a description of the systems sensitivity, protections of privacy, appropriate use policy, etc....





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> From: Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com>
>To: rlerch at redhat.com; Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop <desktop at lists.fedoraproject.org> 
>Cc: Fedora Design Team <design-team at lists.fedoraproject.org> 
>Sent: Friday, September 6, 2013 9:08 AM
>Subject: Re: Different Backgrounds for the Lock Screen vs the desktop
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>On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 15:57 -0400, Ryan Lerch wrote:
>> The new GNOME shipped with fedora 20 has the awesome new ability to set 
>> different backgrounds for both the lock screen/shield and the normal 
>> regular desktop background.
>> 
>> Currently in f20 alpha TC4, we set the old f19 default background for 
>> the desktop, and a completely different pink, fan style design for the 
>> lock screen. IMHO, the defaults should behave the same as the f19, 
>> setting the default background for both.
>> 
>> thoughts?
>
>I think it is better to default to two different backgrounds. Otherwise,
>this new functionality is hard to discover, And having the same
>background locked and unlocked was genuinely confusing to some people.
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