Workstation branding on login screen (GDM)

[Máirín Duffy]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> 
wrote:
> What we have done in RHEL is to put yelp on the dash. That does not
> address the fact that yelp is all about "GNOME Help", not about 
> "Fedora
> Workstation" - which kinda goes back to our earlier discussion of
> shipping Fedora specific documentation / release notes on the image, 
> and
> in what form. If we ship it, we can probably make it show up in yelp.

Oh, that's a much better spot for it. I think having yelp there and 
shipping the Fedora docs with yelp would go a long way.

> I think that helping users to get in touch with Fedora the project (ie
> find websites, irc channels, forums, etc) can be better achieved by a
> default page in the browser, or as part of the initial setup (some 
> form
> of 'system registration / account setup' step).

I think then we need to drop the pending change of dropping start.fpo 
for the Firefox default 'recently visited' or maybe Rahul's suggestion 
of an ask.fpo icon. (Or maybe better, an ask.fpo search provider so 
people can type stuff like, "gvfs crash blah blah blah" and matches 
from ask.fpo could pop up? (or is this not the way it's meant to be 
extended?)

> Some things I noted while playing with this:
> 
> - To get to yelp, you just go to the overview and type 'help' - this 
> is
> explained in one of the 'welcome tour' videos.

Right. This is a lot easier if you know there's something to find. If 
you don't know that there is a help app (and how would you?) then this 
is a bit more of a leap of faith. 

It's not something that's used intentionally (nobody wants to have to 
use help; it's always ancillary to another task that is way more 
important to a user). Think about how subway cars all have signs about 
the emergency telecom and fire equipment. Those signs are not like the 
ads on the subway, but everyone's read them and knows where they are 
and that the safety equipment exists if they ride the subway with any 
regularity. (And of course the air mask / seatbelt dance is way too 
over the top but the card in the seat back pocket on a plane is similar 
- it's visible, not in your face, if you ever needed it you'll know 
where it is and have easy access... rather than wonder if any such 
thing exists when you get in a pickle at which point you might be too 
panicked / upset to think straight enough to find)

But if there's a help icon in the dash then I think that addresses this 
- it'll be in a place users will see and they'll know it's there (and 
they can easily pull it off the dash if they don't want it in the dash.)

> - To find out what OS you're running, you can similarly go to the
> overview and type 'about'.

This falls under the same above. It's not latently visible, you have to 
intentionally seek it out. But if you don't know it exists, you're less 
likely to try. And it's similar to help in that nobody wants to have to 
look for this.

~m
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