Workstation branding on login screen (GDM)

[Ryan Lerch]

On 10/13/2014 11:03 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 05:15:19AM -0400, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>>> I agree with what you're saying here, but I don't think that translates
>>> to "so we must have no logos ever, at all on the desktop"
>> In both cases, the logos are actual buttons, not simply fillers (like the
>> Red Hat logo is in RHEL's gnome-shell). If we had a "GNOME menu" in the
>> default UI, we would be comparing things properly.
> What about making the Fedora logo an active button? It could:
>
>   a. go to the overview of the existing "Details" window,
>   b. go to a new applet (or local web page displayed as an app) describing
>      more about Fedora overall, or
>   c. just go to the left of the Activities menu and act as part of that.
>
> For "C", we could package and slightly modifiy the existing Activities
> Configurator extension, although finding some elegant way to do B is my
> preference.
>
>
>> I don't think we should have a logo in the default shell chrome, as it
>> would dilute the goal of minimal chrome, and take attention away from the
>> already present UI items.
>
> I understand that goal, and especially for upstream it is laudable. Clean,
> elegant, and minimal are ideals. As a distro, though, we have to balance
> those ideals with other goals, including promoting identity. It is important
> to have visible Fedora branding somewhere. Help us figure out how.
>
>
AFAIK, one of the reasons why we never have the Fedora Logo on the 
default background is that we
want the wallpaper to be Freely Licenced, and this runs into issues if 
the wallpaper has a logo in
it.

However, if we do want to brand the "background" -- this could be done 
with a GNOME shell extension that
puts the logo on the desktop in a set position that we allow for in the 
background design.

This could easily then be turned off (or even changed) depending on the 
user's preferences.

just a thought,
ryanlerch