Workstation branding on login screen (GDM)

Ray Strode rstrode at redhat.com
Thu Oct 2 17:14:54 UTC 2014


hi,

> This is a flawed assumption. A few cases to think about:
> 
> - Stephen's aforementioned lab situation use case. I'm sitting down to
> work in the computer lab. I didn't install the machine, I have no clue
> what it's running.
> 
> - Developer use case, I have multiple VMs I'm working with; maybe I'm
> testing software on different OSes. I'm trying to locate the correct VM.
> (This works in the physical case too. I'm a lowly sysadmin who has been
> told to go 'reboot the Fedora machine' - which one is it?)
> 
> - This is just a modified version of the lab situation case - but when
> I'm doing outreach with the Girl Scouts or at local schools, often the
> kids go home with a live USB of Inkscape and Gimp and all the software
> they learned how to use. We didn't talk about the OS much at all. Maybe
> their parents or friends want their own cweet USB key setup too. What
> are they using? What do they Google for? How do they figure it out?
So how would you solve the problems noted in these situations?

> The only Fedora-specific thing on the desktop is the wallpaper, and we
> don't put the logo on that (more for legal reasons than anything else -
> we openly license the artwork and we can't do that if it contains
> trademarks.)
I think we both agree that fedora has/should have more differentiators than the artwork,
right? 

--Ray


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